Mon, Jun 23, 2003
2nd Largest GA Mfr Adds Sales Muscle
Cirrus Design has more than
tripled the size of its North American sales force. “The
added sales muscle is needed to handle the growing demand for the
company’s popular SR20 and SR22 personal aircraft,”
says John Bingham, executive vice president of sales and marketing
for Cirrus. “We have increased the sales team from seven to
24 managers.”
The new Cirrus sales force is divided into 12 regions and each
will operate from new regional offices located at key general
aviation airports across the country. This allows the company and
the sales managers to rapidly meet the needs of clients and
prospects. Bingham says he searched for sales people who
“have a passion for sales success as well as
flying.”
Bingham took over the Cirrus sales
operation in October 2002. Since joining the company sales have
continued to grow in spite of external and economic forces. The
company’s rapid growth has positioned Cirrus as the second
largest general aviation manufacturer in the world.
Cirrus CEO Alan Klapmeier says, “Our airplanes are
attracting a new breed of pilot. General Aviation has to provide
products that appeal to a wider market. Our new sales team has
joined us from a variety of management backgrounds that enables us
to interface with the broad spectrum of clients to whom we sell
planes.”
- NORTHWEST REGION WA, OR, BC Bill Hollenbeck, Regional Director
Phone: 503-645-3455 Email: bhollenbeck@cirrusdesign.com
- NORTHERN CALIFORNIA/GREATER NEVADA REGION CA, NV Walt Conley,
Regional Director Phone: 831-206-9385 Email: wconley@cirrusdesign.com
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA/HAWAII /LAS VEGAS REGION Heike Berthold,
Regional Director Phone: 310-699-7204 Email: hberthold@cirrusdesign.com
Chris Eichman, Regional Sales Manager Phone: 503 784
1776 Email: ceichman@cirrusdesign.com
- SOUTHWEST REGION TX, NM, AZ Tom Bergeron, Regional Director
Phone: 214-906-1698 Email: tbergeron@cirrusdesign.com
Iggy Burkhardt, Regional Sales Manager Phone: 214-914-5793 Email:
iburkhardt@cirrusdesign.com
- SOUTHERN MIDWEST REGION LA, MS, AR, MO, OK, KS, E. St. Louis,
IL Jeff Sandusky, Regional Director Phone: 405-650-5900 Email: jsandusky@cirrusdesign.com
- SOUTHERN REGION GA, AL, TN, KY Mike McEllhiney, Regional
Director 678-641-2254 Email:mmcellhiney@cirrusdesign.com Doug
Whitson, Regional Sales Manager 404-353-8033 Email: dwhitson@cirrusdesign.com
- FLORIDA AND BAHAMAS Charlie Hood, Regional Director Phone:
407-896-8379 Email: chood@cirrusdesign.com
Robert Neuman, Regional Sales Manager Phone: 561-573-3629 Email: rneuman@cirrusdesign.com
- MID-ATLANTIC REGION SC, NC, VA, WV, DE, MD, DC, PA Bruce
Gunter, Regional Director Phone: 757-852-9520 Email: bgunter@cirrusdesign.com
Gregg Malley, Regional Sales Manager Phone: 757-852-9521 Email: gmalley@cirrusdesign.com
- NORTHEAST REGION NY, NJ, CT, RI, ME, MA, VT, NH, Quebec David
Mueller, Regional Director Phone: 315-436-0666 Email: dmueller@cirrusdesign.com
Bill Vaccarro, Regional Sales Manager Phone: 617-320-0584 Email: bvaccarro@cirrusdesign.com
- UPPER MIDWEST REGION IL, IN, OH, MI, Milwaukee Pete Halasz,
Regional Director Phone: 815-477-0432 Email: phalasz@cirrusdesign.com
Rory Papenfuss, Regional Sales Manager Phone: 815-341-5080 Email:
rpapenfuss@cirrusdesign.com
- GREAT PLAINS AND ALASKA REGION MN, WI, IA, NE, SD, ND, Quad
Cities-IL, Manitoba Gary Black, Regional Director Phone:
218-724-0577 Email: gblack@cirrusdesign.com
Jon Dauplaise, Regional Sales Manager Phone: 218-788-3827 Email: jdauplaise@cirrusdesign.com
- ROCKY MOUNTAINS CO, UT, WY, ID, MT, AB and SK Mike Kolman,
Regional Director Phone: 303-517-6965 Email: mkolman@cirrusdesign.com
Adam Tibbitts, Regional Sales Manager Phone: 208-841-1368

Cirrus aircraft continue to be popular with pilots outside the
United States and the company plans to turn its attention to those
markets. “Our next focus is to grow our sales activities in
the key export markets of Europe, Australia and South
Africa,” Bingham stated. Cirrus Design Corporation is
currently the second largest manufacturer of general aviation
aircraft in the world (and bucking for number one in a big way...).
It has delivered more than 850 airplanes and doubled output in
2002. Based in Duluth, Minnesota, with an additional facility in
Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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