Terra Sonic International, a leader in sonic drilling rig manufacturing, recently welcomed a new president. Vince Trotta, who is based in the company’s corporate headquarters in Marietta, Ohio, is responsible for overseeing all aspects of business in his new role. That includes sales, engineering, purchasing, inventory, production, logistics and more. Trotta is focused on developing strategies that bring additional productivity to existing customers while also looking for new markets into which the company can expand.
His professional career started in the heavy equipment industry 30 years ago as an electrical engineer at GE, where he designed electric motors, generators and control systems. Because some of the systems were designed for dump trucks used in open-pit mining, Trotta says the mining industry caught his attention. He went on to spend over six years focused on the global mining industry, selling haul trucks equipped with the GE drive system. Before joining Terra Sonic, he spent five years as a sales leader at Boart Longyear, focusing on mineral exploration, environmental and some geotechnical markets. “It started with industrial equipment, I got hooked on mining and then evolved into drilling equipment in the mining segment,” Trotta says. He looks forward to serving as a leader at Terra Sonic and says it will be important to continue everything that is working while always keeping an eye out for expansion opportunities.