Our Team
Our unique, highly trained Sales and Service Engineers are familiar with our customer’s plants and facilities, and maintain long term, personal relationships with the key people within the facilities. They help the power industry keep pace with changing technology, by providing quality solutions for safe and reliable electrical power.

Tom Ribar brings 35 years of experience in the power industry to APS.  His first years were with a major public utility metering and protective relaying group, going on to private industry providing commissioning and maintenance services to utilities, independent power producers, and large industrials. For ten of those years he served as Region Manager, responsible for sales and technical staff. Tom provides our customers with solutions-oriented sales and value-added service.

Bob Sheridan has 26 years of sales experience in Northern-California and Northern-Nevada utilities and large industrials. As Sales Integrator, he is responsible for all inside sales activities, order fulfillment and technical product support.  Bob works directly with customer engineering and purchasing staff, and functions as a "go between" for our manufactures and customers.

Ted Blank has extensive knowledge of all substation apparatus, including power transformers, HV circuit breakers, metering, and protective relays.  He brings 12 years of substation commissioning and maintenance testing experience to APS, and also provides technical sales support for our manufacturer's products.

Matt Jones brings 8 years of industrial power experience, including substation commissioning and maintenance testing on power transformers, HV circuit breakers, metering and protective relays. Matt also provides sales support for the products we represent.

Chris Benson, a product of the Navy's nuclear power program, has 4 years of experience with power plant maintenance and troubleshooting. His training in all aspects of power plant operation provide him with a unique, well-rounded technical perspective that customers appreciate when he is assisting them with their sales needs.