ECCO Leadership Team

Bernard Gizzi – President

Over the course of 30 years in the Electronics Distribution Industry, Bernard has held various sales, general management, and executive management positions. Today, as President of ECCO he leads a team of dedicated, experienced and ambitious colleagues in creating a new kind of company in the electronics industry. Previously, he lead a design engineering & sales firm and managed sales and marketing teams at Newark/element 14, Premier Farnell, and Arrow Electronics where he started his career.

Kevin Hayes – Quality & Operations Manager

Kevin Hayes joined ECCO in the fall of 2015. Since then, Kevin served as the “team lead” in our successful AS9100C Quality certification and has helped ECCO achieve higher levels of productivity while keeping Quality JOB #1 via “on time & in full” Qty deliveries of our connectors, switches, and assembled solutions.  Previously, Kevin has been involved with federal contracting management, sales operations, & print manufacturing.

John Garcia – Digital Marketing & Sales Manager

John joined ECCO in the fall of 2014 in sales & business development. In 2017, John was promoted to sales manager and has created a “high performing” culture within our sales & marketing team.  He has trained us on technical selling & is continuing to develop our value added solutions portfolio. He has been active in sales for over 15 years in the wholesale & distribution industries and enjoys reading and the outdoors when not helping customer’s solve their interconnect & switch material needs.

Miraya Cantu – Office Manager

Miraya joined ECCO in the winter of 2019. Miraya brings over 20 years administrative experience in Office Management, Human Resources, and Accounting to ECCO. She handles the day-to-day office responsibilities, ensuring both the books and culture have a cohesive flow. Her coworkers lovingly refer to her as “Mom.”