Executive Team
Kevin Dutton
Founder
Kevin Dutton has been involved in the Computer Related Industry for almost 30 years. In 1979, Kevin started his career in the technology industry troubleshooting and replacing DEC/VAX terminals. In 1984, he joined Innovative Computer Products, selling to the IBM Micro to Mainframe Connectivity market. Representing Innovative, Kevin worked as a Regional Sales Representative selling to the Fortune 1000 customer base. Kevin was named the overall top producing rep in gross sales and margin percentage in both 1988 and 1989. He continued his technology career joining Rabbit Software as a Central Region Sales Manager. Kevin was responsible for an overall 19% growth in sales over the next 2 years with Rabbit.
In 1991 Kevin was offered an opportunity with a U.K. based company called Direct Technologies. Direct Technologies was looking for a way to gain greater market penetration in the South Central and Western Regions of the US market. However, instead of working for Direct Technologies, Kevin's vision was to start a reseller to represent Direct Technology and a variety of connectivity products. Thus, in October of 1991 Future Com was founded.
Kevin has been recognized for his accomplishments over the years with a variety of Vendors who have awarded Future Com with their highest merits. His ongoing vision of the technology industry has helped Future Com continue to offer its customers unmatched service and support of all the products it represents. Going the extra mile for the customer has separated Future Com as a leader in this industry.
Education: Indiana University
Greg Bennett
Chief Executive Officer
Greg joined Future Com in July 2004 as CEO with a charter to enhance operations, grow market share, and lead the company to new levels of performance. Greg has over 25 years of operations experience providing portfolio companies expertise in manufacturing, production control, material management, information technology, environmental compliance, facility management, and asset management.
Greg began his professional career with General Dynamics in Fort Worth , Texas , where he served as a buyer for electronic equipment. He advanced through the Material Management Function to the Manager of Material Planning and in 1992 he became Director of Material Operations, responsible for shipping and receiving, warehousing, transportation, production support and government furnished materials. In 1995 he assumed the position of Director of Procurement and participated in the consolidation of procurement functions of the Lockheed Martin Aerospace Sector Group.
Greg was previously with the Carlyle Management Group (CMG) since its inception in 1999 . As the Vice President of the Operations Group he was responsible for assisting portfolio company management teams in executing the CMG value creation strategies.
In 1999 Greg was a Senior Vice President of Operations for United States Marine Repair, which owns Southwest Marine ship repair yards in California and Texas and Norshipco in Virginia . Greg joined Southwest Marine in 1996 as Director of Material Management. Immediately before joining Southwest Marine, he served as Vice President, Material at Marmon Motors in Garland , Texas.
Education: Greg is a 1977 graduate of Texas Christian University with a Bachelor's degree in Speech Communications.
Mark Williamson
Chief Operating Officer
Mark joined Future Com in 2000 and is responsible for the Finance and Operations of the company. Mark has extensive experience in domestic and international purchasing and financing agreements, project management and asset valuations.
His past experiences include a 20-year career with Budget Rent a Car, where he served in various Senior Operations Management and Director level positions. During his tenure Mark was instrumental in developing and implementing new business opportunities for Budget's truck rental division, including funding, development and implementation of a one-way truck rental division.
Jared Hornsby
Executive Vice President
Jared Hornsby joined Future Com’s team in 1997 and now serves as Executive Vice President. In his role, Jared is responsible for developing internal sales procedures/programs which allow Future Com to facilitate business with all their vendors. Jared is also responsible for the company's overall sales, strategy and execution.
Since joining the company, Jared has implemented multiple sales programs that have helped Future Com increase revenue year after year. Jared plays an instrumental role in Future Com's vendor relations, helping to maintain top status.
Prior to joining Future Com, Jared served as Director of Sales at RCL/Lyric Studios.
Education: Jared holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Allen D. Brown
Vice President Professional Services
Allen D. Brown joined Future Com in 2007 as Vice President of Professional Services. His experiences have included leading teams to deliver professional services deployments worldwide, implementing network protocols and designing network solutions for large enterprise, as well as, communication service providers.
As a business leader, Allen has provided consulting and led professional services to deliver numerous solutions for network security, wireless broadband networks, operational support systems (OSS), digital set top box manufacturing, streaming media services, Internet e-commerce, ATM networks & public switched telephone network applications.
Allen has established new business units for hundred million to billion dollar product programs in large corporations, as well as turnaround and startup environments. He also has over twenty years of successful product/systems development and product launch experience in companies such as Liberate Technologies, Nortel Networks, Fujitsu Business Communications, Zenith Digital Media and Gould Computer.
Education: Allen did graduate studies in business administration at Nova University and received his Bachelor of Science in Computer and
Information Science Engineering from the University of Florida.