The Team · Five Departments · Twelve People

The people who
show up.

Any dealer can sell you a snow groomer. What separates Peterson Equipment is the bench behind the sale — staffed deeper than industry norms, trained directly with Kässbohrer, and on call when conditions demand it. Below: the people you'll actually work with.

Why we staff this way

The mountain doesn't
wait for tomorrow.

Most equipment dealers run lean. We don't — and that's the point. A grooming machine going down at 6pm doesn't have until Monday. A part that lives 1,200 miles away isn't a part you have. A technician who only sees PistenBully twice a year isn't a PistenBully technician.

So we invested in people. Twelve of them, across five departments, each picked for the job and given the latitude to do it right. Sales people who've operated the machines they sell. Technicians factory-trained and recertified annually. A parts manager who knows the resort-prep order before the resort does. A finance director who knows which clauses actually matter. A logistics pilot whose truck route is the customer's lifeline.

"Above and beyond" should be the baseline, not the exception.
— Jim Grewe, Owner
12
Team members
5
Departments
60+
Years serving the industry
<6hr
Avg on-mountain response

The GM

Owner · General Manager · The Tone-Setter

The team is the product. The culture comes from the top. And the way Peterson Equipment treats its customers is a direct reflection of how Jim runs the place.

Leadership
Jim Grewe

Owner &
General Manager.

The boss · Sets the standard · Picks up the phone

Jim runs Peterson Equipment. He's been at this longer than most current dealers have existed — and his fingerprints are on every part of how PEC operates: sales philosophy, service standards, parts strategy, and the way the whole crew talks to customers.

He's the person walking the shop floor at 5am, picking up the service line when it rings on a Saturday, and sitting in spec meetings when a customer is choosing a new fleet. The culture comes from him. The team chose this work because they love it — and Jim chose this team because they do.

His operating philosophy: the only way to be the best team in North America is to actually be the best team in North America. So the team trains. The parts shelf stays full. The phone gets answered. The customers are friends. The work is fun. That's how you stay in business for sixty years — and how PEC became PistenBully's #1 dealer in North America.

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Sales

3 People · Mountain West + SnowSat

Sales reps who've operated the machines they sell. When you ask about a 600 Park Pro tiller config or how a 400 W behaves on a 38° pitch, you're talking to someone who's been in the seat. New equipment, used machines, and the technology stack — there's a specialist for each.

Sales

Dan Kelsay

Sales Representative
New equipment · Montana & the north country

Dan handles new equipment sales out of Montana, covering the north country. The rep who calls back the same hour, who's already pulled the spec sheet, who's already priced the configuration. Customers who've worked a deal through Dan know him for being honest about fit — a 400 is sometimes the right answer when the brochure shows a 600, and Dan will tell you so.

His superpower is the spec phase. By the time a customer is making a tracks-vs.-tiller-vs.-blade decision, Dan has already walked them through every relevant trade-off. He doesn't hard-sell. He helps customers walk into a half-million-dollar purchase with eyes open.

Dan's a skilled operator — but more than that, he rips on skis. Snow is his passion, and it comes through every time he's working with a customer.

Sales

Butch Anctil

Sales Representative
New & used equipment · Utah & southern Idaho

Butch is one of the newer faces on PEC's sales side — three years in and still sharpening his craft. He handles new and used equipment across Utah and southern Idaho, and he brings the kind of drive that comes from a career spent around high-performance machines.

Before snow, Butch spent years in rally motorsports, working for Hoonigan Racing — a background that shows in how hard he works a problem and how much he cares about getting it right for a customer. Off the clock, his passion is hockey. He lives in the Wasatch Back, and the customers in his territory get a rep who's genuinely invested in earning their trust, one deal at a time.

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Jed Turcott

Sales · SnowSat
Technology platform · LiDAR + Suite

Jed runs the SnowSat side of PEC sales — the technology piece. V3 LiDAR, the Maintain platform, fleet and area and maintenance modules, snowmaking integration. The conversations he has aren't about horsepower; they're about data, workflow, and what it actually takes to put a software platform behind a working ski-area operation.

A decade ago, software-in-grooming was a niche conversation reserved for the largest resorts. Now it's how a modern operation runs. Jed's job is to make sure customers don't just buy a system — they actually use it. He stays on the call after the sale, helping operations teams write the workflows that make the data show up where it needs to.

Jed grew up at a ski area in the Midwest, learning the business from the inside before chasing the skiing west. He spent a few years on the team at Alta Ski Area in Utah before joining PEC in Hyde Park — so when he talks workflow, he's talking from the operator's side of the seat, not just the vendor's. And he's a ripping skier, which never hurts the credibility.

Service

4 People · Factory-Certified · 24-Hour Line

The department exists to do one thing — keep your PistenBully running when conditions demand it. Pre-season prep, in-season response, off-season overhaul. Four certified technicians, $2M of parts on the shelf, and a service line that's answered by a human every shift of the season.

Service · Manager

Scot Sorensen

Service Manager
Department lead · Factory-certified · 12+ years on PB

Scot runs service. After more than a decade hands-on as a PistenBully technician — wrenching, training, traveling to customer sites — he stepped into the manager seat and took the department where it needed to go: certified, equipped, on call.

His operating principle: a diagnostic that takes three days is one that costs the resort the weekend. So Scot's structure prioritizes speed and accuracy. Mobile trucks. Certified techs. Real-time parts visibility. A phone line that gets picked up by a human at all hours during the season.

What the team reports to Scot, the customers feel. The shop's standards are his standards.

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Cannon Parker

Shop Leader
Back of house · Quality control & documentation

Cannon runs back of house. Every machine that comes through the bay passes under his eye — he keeps the mechanics in line and precise, and holds the work to standard. His focus is quality control and clean, thorough documentation of exactly what was done to your machine.

Think of Scot as front of house and Cannon as back of house. Cannon doesn't usually talk to customers — that's Scot's role. What Cannon does is make sure that what Scot promises out front actually happens on the bench, done right and recorded so there's a clear history on every machine.

Service · Tech

Brandon Duce

Technician
Fabrication · Repair & field service

Brandon's expertise is fabrication. He put in a lifetime at the bench — cutting, welding, building, repairing — before bringing that craft to the PistenBully shop. When a fix calls for something fabricated rather than ordered, Brandon is the one who makes it.

Few people have embraced the ski industry like Brandon — he loves it so much he helped two of his sons find their way into it. And he's leaned just as hard into the customer side of the work. Brandon takes care of the people he works with, and customers know they're in good hands with him.

Service · Tech

Clay Hawker

Technician
Newest technician · Raised on the tools

Clay is the newest technician in the shop — but he didn't come in green. He was raised as a mechanic, and that foundation runs deep. He picks things up fast and brings a solid, well-grounded skill set to the bench.

Off the clock, Clay's two passions are making cars go fast and riding his snowmobile. That instinct for how machines work — and how to make them run harder and better — is exactly what you want in someone coming up on the PistenBully platform.

Logistics

1 Person · The Express Route

The human network that connects Hyde Park to every regional container and every customer dock — and the rig that runs the route.

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Kelly Larson

The PistenBully
Express Pilot.

Driver · Dispatcher · Courier

Kelly is the human network that connects Hyde Park to every regional container and every customer dock. Driver, dispatcher, courier — and a face the customers know on sight. When parts have to be on a mountain tonight, Kelly's rig is on the highway.

The "PistenBully Express" isn't marketing copy — it's an actual route Kelly runs across the Mountain West. Same-day deliveries from Hyde Park to Park City. Container restocks across the Wasatch Front and Wasatch Back. Whole-machine moves between resorts. Customer pickups at all hours.

The logistics PEC promises starts with Kelly making it real, week after week.

When the workweek ends, Kelly heads for the snow — riding with his crew at a slope near you.

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Office & Finance

1 Person · The Keel

The work the customer doesn't always see — pricing, billing, contracts, financing, vendor relationships — but the work the customer always feels. Run by someone who's been doing it long enough to know which line items actually matter.

Jennifer Hancey

Director of Finance.

Finance · Administration · Operations

Jennifer runs the financial and administrative side of PEC. Pricing, terms, billing, financing, contracts, vendor relationships — the work the customer doesn't always see but always feels. The reason a quote out of PEC is clean. The reason a deal closes on time. The reason warranty work doesn't fall through cracks.

A finance director who actually understands the equipment business is rare. Jennifer's been doing it long enough to know which line items resort operations teams stress over, which financing structures work for seasonal cash flow, and which clauses in a long-term service agreement actually matter.

She's the keel of the operation. The reason it stays steady.

Jennifer has been skiing since childhood, and away from the office she's an avid member of the Beaver Mountain Ski Patrol — the oldest all-volunteer ski patrol in the West.

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Finance

Spare Parts

2 People · $2M on the shelf · 3 regional containers

The warehouse, the catalog, and the logistics behind the largest regional PistenBully parts operation in the West. Online ordering through EPL is the front door — Justin and Cesar are what makes it actually work.

Parts · Manager

Justin Anderson

Parts Manager
Warehouse & catalog · 12+ years on the shelf

Justin runs the warehouse and the catalog, backed by a solid career in logistics and warehouse management. He took over parts in 2014 and built it into the operation it is today: $2M+ on the shelf, three regional distribution containers across the Mountain West, 94% fill rate, OEM-only.

He knows which fastener gets bent on a track adjustment. He knows which sensor goes first on the 600 E+. He knows what's on the resort-prep order before the resort places it. When a tech calls in with a half-broken description of a half-broken part, Justin is the one who finds the right number.

The reason regional distribution works isn't just the strategy — it's somebody who knows the catalog cold.

When he joined PEC, Justin turned his family into a ski family — you'll find them out on the slopes just about every weekend.

Parts · Logistics

Cesar Benhumea

Logistics Specialist
Inbound · Container restocks · Returns

Cesar handles the moving parts of parts. Incoming shipments. Regional container restocks. Customer outbound. Returns and warranty cores. He's the operations engine inside Justin's department — the person making sure the strategy translates into a part on a shelf where the customer can reach it.

Without Cesar, the warehouse runs out of what's most needed in February. With Cesar, the Park City container has what Park City actually orders. The reason regional distribution works on the ground isn't theory — it's somebody making it work week by week.

Cesar first walked through the PEC office on a high school tour more than a decade ago — and he hasn't looked back since. The warehouse runs on instincts he's spent years building.

Beyond the showroom

Resources others
don't offer.

Selling the machine is the start. We back it with operator training, in-season clinics, telemetry support, off-season maintenance programs, and a phone that gets answered by someone who knows your fleet by name.

01

Operator Training

On-site training for new operators. SlopeTracer, AutoTracer, winch operation, park geometry, SnowSat iX. We send a tech to your mountain — not a manual to your inbox.

02

Pre-Season Service

Full-fleet inspection before opening day. Hydraulic samples, engine analysis, track tensioning, attachment audit. You start the season knowing what's good and what's getting watched.

03

Telemetry Support

SnowSat fleet data, DocStation logging, remote diagnostics. We watch your machines with you — and flag issues before they become breakdowns.

Talk to us

Get the team
on your side.

The first conversation is the one where you learn what kind of dealer you'd be working with. Let's have that conversation.

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PistenBully SnowSat ProAcademy