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As senior vice president of sales and marketing Pete Zogas is responsible for maximizing the effectiveness of National Instruments worldwide sales marketing and product marketing organizations. He was instrumental in the company's 29 years of growth in its 30-year history and helped establish the NI worldwide direct sales model which now includes serving more than 25 000 companies.
NI customers range from cutting-edge startups developing the next scientific breakthrough to global FORTUNE 500 firms doing business in the Americas and emerging markets in Asia and Eastern Europe. In identifying and prioritizing the needs of this diverse group of customers Zogas has helped lead the NI technical sales team to deliver the right level of service.
As part of his focus on customer success Zogas led a major initiative to establish technical partners that share the company's passion for virtual instrumentation helping create National Instruments highly successful Alliance Program which is now more than 500 partners strong.
Zogas joined NI in 1985 and has held several positions with the company including national sales manager business development manager regional sales manager and sales engineer. Before coming to NI Zogas worked as a design engineer for Texas Instruments and worked in the bipolar semiconductor sector at AT&T. He is a coholder of a multichip packaging patent issued in 1986 and received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Zogas also actively participates in community organizations such as The Lake Travis Youth Association the LEGO MINDSTORMS Classroom Mentor program and Friends of Alex - a University of Texas College of Engineering scholarship fund. | 