Ascent Representatives (ARI) is a manufacturers representative firm covering California, Arizona, and Nevada. We represent a focused group of complementary manufacturers across power, automation, sensors, connectivity, cable management, and motion control. Each line is selected to work alongside the others, allowing us to bring more complete solutions to customers and greater opportunity to our manufacturing partners. Our team sells to and supports distributors, OEMs, panel builders, integrators, and end users.

ARI has grown by doing the work that matters: joint sales calls, technical training, specification support, and fast application engineering. We earn our manufacturers' trust by building real relationships in the field, and we earn our customers' trust by knowing the products and showing up when it counts.

We are not a catalog house. Every rep on our team carries deep product knowledge and territory-specific market insight. That combination is what makes a manufacturers rep valuable, and it is what sets ARI apart.

What We Do

Technical Sales

Application support, product selection, and solution selling across all lines.

Training

Lunch-and-learns, counter days, and product demos at distributor branches and customer sites.

Specification Support

Working with engineers and specifiers to get ARI lines designed into projects.

Market Development

Identifying new opportunities, tracking projects, and growing market share for our manufacturers.

Territory Coverage

Five territory managers providing local presence and technical expertise across the Western United States.

Southern California

Jim Alton

jalton@ascentreps.com

Central California

Niko Hadden

niko@ascentreps.com

Northern CA / Northern NV

David Bragg

david@ascentreps.com

AZ / Southern NV / NM

Joe Fabian

joe@ascentreps.com

Bakersfield / Inland Empire

Brad Enger

brad@ascentreps.com

Ready to Work Together?

Contact your local ARI territory manager to start the conversation.

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