BEAR Press Release
The speaker for the general Castle Country Business Expansion and Retention meeting on June 6 will Jack Schons, who is the representative of the area from the Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) program.
The PTAC program helps Utah small businesses to find, bid and win procurement opportunities with federal, state and local government entities. Through one-on-one and group counseling, PTAC educates and assists Utah businesses to more effectively compete in the government marketplace. To date, PTAC has successfully assisted hundreds of Utah small businesses who have been awarded close to one-half trillion dollars.
Schons himself has spent the past 35 years working in sales, marketing and operations management for several businesses in multiple industries. He has had full profit and loss responsibilities and complete operational oversight for companies with revenues ranging from $5 million to $100 million. Most of his career has been spent in the construction supply and energy industries, including working for several Fortune 500 companies.
From 2008 to 2016, he owned a distribution company in Arizona along with his wife, Terry. As a sub-contractor, the business distributed a wide range of industrial goods to federal government prime contractors like Boeing, Northrop, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. The business also provided products directly to military bases like Camp Pendleton, Hill Air Force Base, the United States Navy, the U.S. Army and the Los Alamos Laboratory.
He and his wife moved to Price in 2018 to care for loved ones living in the area. Even though he is a Minnesota native, he is no stranger to Utah, having lived in the Salt Lake Valley for 16 years from 1988 to 2004. He was contacted by PTAC Utah in the fall of 2018 and accepted the position as PTAC representative for Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan counties.
Schons attended college at the University of Minnesota – Moorhead where he studied accounting, finance and marketing.
The presentation will take place at the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center Alumni Room and it will start at 8 a.m. and last about one hour. The public is welcome. Light refreshments will be served.