Boasting more than 100 years of combined experience working at Pace, our international team of Senior Executives possess incomparable industry expertise.

Dawn joined Pace in 1997 and has more than 15 years of experience in sales and marketing in the electronic contract manufacturing industry. She worked her way through the Pace organization after starting as the executive assistant to Founder and President F. Patrick Kehoe. This has given her not only thorough knowledge of Pace’s policies and procedures, but also invaluable insight into Pace’s customers and niche market. She was promoted to Vice President of Sales and Marketing in 2009 and is currently the lead salesperson on the majority of Pace’s top customers. Her focus on expanding the contract manufacturing side of the business has helped bring Pace to the more than $40 million company it is today. Dawn is also the liaison with Pace’s China and Hong Kong operations. During her multiple visits to China since 2005, she has accompanied existing and potential customers to audit the facility, been instrumental in vendor selection and qualification, and worked on the startup of new manufacturing programs. Dawn is also an expert in the emergency lighting industry, responsible for all of the agency’s product-safety certifications and serving customers in that industry as program manager since 2002. Dawn has an associate degree in business from The University of Phoenix and is working toward her Bachelor of Science in business management.

Dawn recently redesigned the Pace website and sales literature to provide the sales team with the most updated sales tools. She has also improved the organization’s daily communications with the Hong Kong and China operations.

Dawn has been actively involved in the policy and procedure decisions and, in her role as CEO, continues to make these decisions to form the future of Pace. Dawn lives in Fair Haven, NY, with her husband, Jeff, and daughter Courtney. She is actively involved in Courtney’s competitive dance and soccer, and the family enjoys camping, motocross and snowboarding.

Alan has been the Chief Financial Officer at Pace Electronics since 2001, where he is responsible for the overall financial guidance of the company as well as identifying opportunities to improve profitability, evaluate expansion opportunities and provide analysis and projections. Prior to joining Pace, Alan was a controller at a small electronics contract manufacturing company in Rochester, NY. He graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting. From there he worked to obtain his CPA license and began his career in a small local public accounting firm. In 1995, Alan joined Mengel, Metzger, Barr and Company, a large regional accounting firm. It is there, while specializing in audits of manufacturing companies that Alan began to develop his real-world business skills.

Upon joining Pace, Alan’s initial focus was to bring stability to the accounting department as well as improve the company’s balance sheet. In his daily capacity he handles the banking relationship, daily cash management, vendor selection/negotiation and day to day operational decisions. He also manages logistics, has responsibility for a key customer and oversees the purchasing department. Alan has been key in managing the growth of Pace from a $20 million dollar company in 2001 to over $50 million today.

Personal: Alan lives in Webster, New York with his wife Jennifer and their three children, Nicholas, Alicia and Jonathan. He is an avid Yankee fan. Aside from baseball the family likes to travel and spend time on their boat on nearby Irondequoit Bay and Lake Ontario.

Ms. Yang was trained and raised to be a reliable successor to her father, Peter Yang, a successful and experienced businessman. Ms. Yang grew up and received her education in Taiwan. In 2013, she left her hometown to start a wonderful adventure by joining Pace Technology in Heshan, China. The more Charlene learns about the business, the more she feels interested and motivated in her career. She began by assisting in purchasing and finance, and after a year moved into the sales department. She hosts most Pace customers during their visits to the factory and also handles all the activities for one of Pace’s top customers. Given her accounting background, Ms. Yang also has responsibilities for very significant decisions, both financially and operationally.

Fun Fact: Charlene now lives with her husband, Manson, in China and they make video calls to their lovely dachshund, Mrs. HotDog, in Taiwan every night. Charlene very much loves to travel alone. The first time she traveled to America, she was only 19. She took a journey from Manhattan to Boston, and then all the way to Chicago by herself. She finds American culture to be irresistible, just like the taste of their pizza.

Mr. Yang has spent more than 25 years in the Asian electronics industry. His relationship with Pace began in 1980, when he partnered with Pat Kehoe to form PaceTaiwan. Since then, Mr. Yang has cultivated numerous relationships with Pacific Rim suppliers to provide Pace customers with high-quality, low-priced components and electronic contract manufacturing. Mr. Yang was instrumental in establishing the Pace office in Hong Kong and the nearby Pace Technologies manufacturing plant. As Managing Director of the Pace Technologies plant, Mr. Yang is responsible for all aspects of plant management and day-to-day operations, including job scheduling, staffing and quality control. Mr. Yang holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Taiwan National Chung Hsien University.