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Mike Morton
Fort Worth-based TTI, Inc. a leading authorized, specialty distributor of electronic components, announced that CEO Mike Morton was unanimously selected to receive the 2024 Tobin Bridge Award from the Electronics Representatives Association.
Morton, who joined TTI in 1978, has been CEO since 2021.
Established in 2020 to honor ERA CEO Walter Tobin, this award recognizes individuals who can bring various constituencies of the electronics industry together and who have successfully “bridged” the gap between manufacturers’ representative, manufacturers and distributors while advancing the manufacturers’ representative.
Morton accepted the award at the ERA conference awards ceremony in Austin, where he was cited for his “vision, leadership and enthusiasm in working to build bridges of support and cooperation.”
TTI, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, was founded in 1971 by Fort Worth-native Paul Andrews, an Arlington Heights graduate who attended University of Texas and TCU.
Andrews began his career in the shipping department at Howell Instruments in 1964. In 1966, he moved to Arco Electronics in Arlington, and then to General Dynamics in 1968. In 1971, along with 20,000 others, Andrews was laid off when the F-111 jet fighter project was grounded.
Andrews started Tex-Tronics with the idea that it would be a temporary source of income until he could find permanent employment. As a buyer at General Dynamics, Andrews had difficulty procuring certain types of electronic components. He started brokering those parts, providing better service and delivery than the large, established distributors. The name Tex-Tronics was later changed to TTI.
In 2007, TTI and subsidiary Mouser Electronics joined the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies. Andrews died in 2021.
TTI and its wholly owned subsidiaries, the TTI Family of Specialists, Mouser Electronics, Sager Electronics, and the Exponential Technology Group employ more than 9,000 people in more than 136 locations throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.