About Us

Claudia Ramondetta

CEO

Claudia is intimately experienced to work with medical and laboratory experts on value added solutions to reduce the costs of managing surplus equipment. She is a Registered Nurse (RN) and has many years of experience in critical care, outpatient surgery and ambulatory care. She has worked for Kaiser Hospital for many years as well as the Veterans Administration (VA). In her various responsibilities, she has worked with many types of medical, surgical and laboratory equipment and devices and understands the medical regulatory environment . Her leadership is focused on growing our overall business and especially the medical segment with both Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and hospitals to better manage depleted and depreciated assets that need to be upgraded or removed.

Lou Ramondetta

President

Lou Ramondetta has been an industrial, electronics and medical industry expert for about 20 years. His experience is both domestic and global, with extensive work in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. His experience base is quite broad working with hospitals, instruments, labs, industrial products, consumer and capital equipment, outsourced services, PACS/IT, clinical equipment, global distributors and agents and original equipment manufacturers.

Among his roles prior to starting Surplus Service, he was with Sanmina, a multi-billion dollar global electronic contract manufacturer, as their Vice President World Wide Sales and Marketing for a division. He oversaw an electronic contract manufacturing business. In this role, he grew sales from around $250M to $900M. All his experiences provide him with extensive hands-on business experience to run and grow a small business. Additionally, Lou received much of his management experience and training while in various positions at General Electric and Philips Healthcare divisions. He was also selected for GE’s management development training, has been highlighted in articles, presented to Jack Welch and has won a number of business awards.

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Levent M. Tekmen

Vice President

Levent received his Master’s Degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering from San Jose State University in Silicon Valley. He joined Surplus Service in 2006 from San Jose State University where he was serving as a Research Assistant for the Industrial & Systems Engineering Department. Levent has focused on building and optimizing the corporate supply chain infrastructure needed to maintain Surplus Service’s rapid growth. Levent’s responsibility for Surplus Service is day-to-day operations in the Liquidation, Department Returns and the Recycling Industry.

Jose Joel Orellana

Recycling & Facility Manager

Jose’s responsibilities for the company include maintaining recycling flow and upkeep of the facility. Charged with managing the flow of recycled goods whether they are to be refurbished or can no longer be used, Jose will also place pallets of goods in the appropriate places in the warehouse, as well as break down received goods into their appropriate locations.

Phil Taylor

Client Solutions Manager

A Mac geek, Phil has extensive Internet sales, Customer Service and IT repair experience. When Phil isn’t helping clients at Surplus Service, he keeps busy with art, photography, playing the harmonica and baseball.

Dave Balleza

Client Solutions Manager

Dave has extensive Internet sales, Customer Service and IT repair experience.

Anthony De Souza

Anthony is A+ IT certified. His vast array of IT skills include: auditing, repair, data destruction and inventory management.

Mascot

Sammy Surplus materialized out of the depths of a vast wasteland of discarded electronic waste. We rescued, repaired and refurbished him. He has lit up the lives of many with his electrifying personality by expanding the market for secondary reuse. Because of his hard drive, leadership and connections, he built our business by returning to the land of unwanted, surplus and upcycleable electronics to give his associates a second chance at life. Sammy’s goal is to rescue all of his friends from the fate of being buried in a landfill or ground up in a recycling facility. He knows that upcycling electronics is the most environmentally sustainable option because his friends continue to be used, exceeding regulatory requirements and providing the highest return for you.