Randy Bortles 
Randy joins NanoLumens bringing with him over 15 years of electronic hardware experience; several years at TTI, Reptron and Avnet electronics, (Global distributors of electronic components and systems), where he worked in various sales capacities in Florida and Georgia. He was also Corporate Account Manager for NCR – Solectron managing the global operations ($650m), an industry leading contract manufacturer. In his latest role he served as a consultant for Rojoli Technology private cloud infrastructure hosting solution company. Born and raised in Syracuse NY, Graduate of State University of New York–Brockport. He is married to Laura Ann Pierce and they have a daughter Randi Brooke. Randy is a full-time fan of all the “Bortles athletes” Brooke- college soccer, Blake- college/pro football, Colby- college baseball, Alexa- World ranked tennis and Elle- Lacrosse. Randy is also passionate about starting college wrestling programs in Georgia.
Excerpt from NanoCast…
Lee: So now, can you walk us through what’s your typical day or conversation with a new architect that maybe has never heard of you before? What is that?
Stone: Starts with a radio interview. Then he heads over to CBS Studios.
Randy: Exactly. Exactly. I try to build it in my celebrity day. Typically what happens, to get a little bit of inertia, we’ll call them up and ask them if they’re interested in what’s considered in the industry a lunch-and-learn type scenario, which is an educational opportunity for us to get our products in front of them, but as well as . . .
There’s an organization in America here called the Architectural Institute of America. We have some modules that have continuing education credits for those. So each architect, every year, has so many credits they . . .
Stone: They have to have so many credits. Right.
Randy: Exactly. So we try to offer that. So we’ll try to take 20 or 30 people and throw them in a room.
Lee: Teach them something.
Randy: Yeah, try to teach them something and then do a little commercial for NanoLumens. Also, some of those people are there for the continuing education credits and the lunch. Right? They’re there for the free lunch, which is fine. Then we try to deliver something there that if their role changes, and they have a need for a design, we’d like to provide an avenue for them to come and talk to us a little bit more about it.
