James Lorentzen

Background

About James Lorentzen

C:(480) 433-1127 My career has provided me a unique set of sales and business development experience centered primarily in aviation in a diverse range of product and service disciplines; component, system, whole/fractional aircraft, maintenance and training. In 2017, I was fortunate enough to marry a passion of mine, biking, with an entrepreneurial company building a brand of electric bikes worldwide. My wife and I relocated to Tucson, AZ and opened Pedego Electric Bikes Tucson. We are in the process of opening and growing our 2nd store in Oro Valley, just north of Tucson. I spent the first 1/3rd of my career in sales and marketing positions in the avionics industry, with most of that time in Phoenix while at Honeywell. I branched out into aircraft manufacturing, moving the family to Savannah GA while working as a Sales Engineer at Gulfstream Aircraft. I took the challenge to help Gulfstream team with Jet Support Services in building an hourly cost maintenance program while on our Service Center team. I built my management experience at Smiths Aerospace, leading a team of eight people in sales and program management. We had an opportunity to move back to southern California, so I became the Regional Sales Director for Flight Options in the fractional ownership market. This provided me aircraft sales experience and building relationships with C-level executives at Fortune companies and high net-worth individuals. An opportunity with Jet Aviation allowed me to further refine whole aircraft and management sales. I became CAE SimuFlite’s Regional Sales Manager for southern California, which provided service sales skills in professional flight training. I partnered and helped start a company specializing in private equity ownership of aerospace technologies. Subsequently, I gained new skills with a couple digital marketing start-ups, specializing in social media marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). My last position provided additional digital marketing experience while with a website design and development company, Creative Arc. My Strengths Finder 2.0 Top 5 Themes: 1) Responsibility 2) Relator 3) Learner 4) Connectedness 5) Individualization