Jay’s Biography

Jay Thompson's years in sales began out of college working for Dixie/Marathon Paper, a division of American Can Company. Jay remained at Dixie/Marathon in various sales positions through the James River acquisition but then transitioned over to Wisconsin Tissue.

He held various sales roles at Wisconsin Tissue including Regional Sales Manager in New England and then director and vice president of national accounts for WT.  Jay ran the department for five years, growing the business dramatically.  He expanded the department to include ten national account managers across the country in food service and sanitary products.  The department grew to $125 million in sales during this time.  Jay left Wisconsin Tissue soon after its acquisition from Georgia Pacific.  He spent two years successfully developing the food service sales at American Tissue before leaving to finally start his own company.  Jay formed Pro Rep Sales in February of 2002, with the idea of creating a national non-food brokerage network company.  Seven years into the mission, Jay is proud of the accomplishments of Pro Rep Sales, LLC.  Already one of the premier brokerage firms in the Midwest, PRS now spans over ten states.

Bob’s Biography

Bob Hochtritt's career has spanned many years in the paper industry. Starting in quality control at Wisconsin Tissue, Bob quickly rose up through the ranks to hold many positions in manufacturing and marketing at Wisconsin Tissue. When Wisconsin Tissue was sold to Georgia Pacific and then SCA, Bob continued on in marketing as the head of the department before leaving. He joined Pro Rep Sales soon after and has been an integral part of the company since 2005. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Bob is married and currently resides in Neenah. Bob covers Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota for Pro Rep Sales.

Scott’s Biography

Mr. Scott Ourada joined Pro Rep Sales in April 2008 after 20+ years in sales and marketing in the Jan/San and Food Service industries. From his early days at Wisconsin Tissue in the late 1980’s, to the private label market with Statler Tissue in Boston, to his 11 years history with Saalfeld Redistribution, Scott has proven to be a dynamic, result driven sales strategist with a record of achievement and demonstrated success while providing visionary sales in highly competitive markets.

Recruited as the Territory Sales Manager for Saalfeld Redistribution in 1996, Scott was challenged with, and succeeded at, the task of introducing and establishing Saalfeld as the premier redistributor of food service and janitorial disposables in Chicago and Wisconsin. It is through this process that he gained extensive knowledge of many manufacturers products, forged strong relationships with key customers and learned how to impact his customer’s revenue as more of an Asset Management Consultant than a sales representative.


Scott moved on from redistribution with the sole intent of becoming a manufacturers representative and when asked why he joined Pro Rep Sales he stated, “When it comes to being a part of a brokerage, there are many options out there for sales reps, but to be a part of a brokerage that puts the customer and the manufacturers they represent first, and has had from its inception integrity as its foundation, that is where I want to be and that is why I am with Pro Rep Sales.”

Roger’s Biography

Roger is a long time Michigan resident and a graduate of Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan with a degree in Food Service Technology. Having lived in Japan with his parents in his younger years, he moved to Michigan to finish high school. Then in 1980 he began working for the original Lily Tulip Cup Company. After a decade of increasing sales responsibility with Fort Howard (since they bought Lily), he worked for Solo Cup Company where he was quite active with corporate accounts and also was instrumental in training the sales force on computer work when they made a significant sales automation conversion.

Roger left Solo to continue his work with building a corporate account department at Anchor Packaging working across all segments of the company to interface with large and small customers in the paper and foodservice segments. With Anchor, Roger was Regional Manager and then Director of Corporate Accounts. When they sold their vending business to Form Plastics in 2002, he became the National Sales Manager and moved to the Chicago area. He moved back to Michigan two years ago to be closer to family.

Roger's fields of expertise include national accounts, distribution sales and processor businesses. He enjoys playing golf, traveling and being close to his grandchildren. He is also secretary-treasurer of an organization of World War II veterans that his father was active in.

Rick’s Biography

Rick graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a BS in BA with emphasis in sales and marketing. Over 25 years of sales experience selling non-food and food products to the food service and retail grocery industry. Types of accounts currently selling and calling on: Retail Grocery Distributors, Food Service Distributors, C-Store Distributors, Janitorial Distributors, Mass Merchandisers (Walgreens, Wal-Mart) Clubs Stores (Sam's, Costco), Food Processors, Retail Grocery Stores, C-Stores. Products sold to these accounts are Food Packaging (Plastics, Aluminum), Jan San (Paper Goods, Chemicals). Territorial coverage includes: Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, and southern Illinois.

Winston’s Biography

Winston, a life long resident of Memphis, TN, began his sales career after completing his Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Marketing/Logistics at Memphis State University. His first adventure into sales was as a rep for a major brewery, covering West Tennessee and the northern half of Mississippi. Winston got into the disposables business when he went with American Can Company, as a rep in the supermarket sales division that promoted tissue, towels, napkins, and wax paper products covering west Tennessee and eastern Arkansas. Winston then had the opportunity to pursue a sales rep assignment with Nyman Cup Company (paper and plastic cups, and plastic dinnerware), covering west TN and surrounding area. The time with Nyman Cup also had Winston become a district manager with responsibility over reps in New Orleans, LA and Birmingham, AL. In 1983, Winston had the opportunity to work as a manufacturers rep with a company based out of Jacksonville, FL, covering Middle and Western TN, the northern half of MS, and the state of AR and selling disposable container products for the food service, supermarket, bakery, catering, and packer/processor markets, as well as jan/san products, several industrial products, and coated meat papers for packers. After several years with the Florida Company, Winston formed his own manufacturer’s rep company in 1986 and continued to specialize in the sale of containers for food service, supermarkets, bakery, catering, and packer/processor, as well as tissue and towels products, and products for the jan/san market segment. The area of coverage expanded to middle and western Tennessee, the northern half of Mississippi, extreme western Kentucky, the bootheel of Missouri, and the state of Arkansas. In 2009, Winston had the opportunity to expand his product representation by affiliating with Pro Rep Sales and covers western Tennessee, north Mississippi, extreme western Kentucky, and the state of Arkansas for Pro Rep Sales.