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As vice president of applications engineering Tony Vento is responsible for the award-winning global technical support and systems engineering of National Instruments. He also leads significant company initiatives in the areas of real-time control and embedded design.
Vento joined NI in 1986 as the company’s first applications engineer for National Instruments LabVIEW software. He helped create the initial product marketing materials including brochures and seminar manuals for NI LabVIEW and I/O hardware. In 1988 Vento moved into sales where he opened the company’s first direct field sales office in Atlanta Georgia and evangelized LabVIEW and data acquisition hardware across seven states.
In 1993 after spending two years as a district sales manager in Colorado Vento took the role of regional sales manager working with sales teams in the United States and Canada to expand virtual instrumentation and further penetrate the region’s largest accounts. In 1994 Vento shifted his focus to the international market taking on leadership positions as director of sales for Europe and later Japan. In these roles Vento was responsible for sales across the respective regions traveling extensively to bring the NI culture to these branch operations and build the field sales force through his enthusiastic passion for NI products and people.
In 2001 Vento took on a new challenge as director of applications engineering later adding business development to his responsibilities. He led the company’s real-time business goal team delivering solid growth for more than five years.
Vento received his bachelor’s in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Colorado graduating Summa Cum Laude and completed a combined master’s degree in business and computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. | 