Meet the Management

An organization is only as good as its people. We believe we've assembled an outstanding group of leaders to guide ComteqUSA.


Brian Bustamante
President & CEO

Mr. Bustamante founded ComteqUSA in 1987 Mr. Bustamante was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating from college, he moved to Houston Texas where he was employed as an Engineer and Training Instructor for a large Oil and Gas company. He started ComteqUSA in the shadow of Compaq Computer in 1987. Being an engineer by profession, Mr. Bustamante adopted the slogan "Engineered Personal Computer Systems" and vowed to always put quality first in everything he sold and built. Mr. Bustamante returned to his roots in 1990, moving the company from Houston to Santa Clara, California and began building the business in the heart of the growing Silicon Valley. Today ComteqUSA still lives by those same values that Mr. Bustamante first started out with, and has carefully grown to a successful "Network Technology Integrator" with 15 full time employees. Mr. Bustamante has many strong relationships with other technology savvy business professionals and organizations. These relationships have been formed during his twenty plus years in the computer industry. No longer just a hardware provider, Mr. Bustamante now oversees the day-to-day operations of a multifaceted technology company. He is actively involved in the many aspects of network technology integration.

Anna Y. Bustamante
Vice President

Mrs. Bustamante has been with ComteqUSA for over six years. She is a US citizen who was born and raised in Taiwan. She is fluent in both Mandarin and English. One of her many strengths is the ability to manage and control an entire production department. She also has excellent price negotiation skills and can multitask even when under pressure. She also has maintained a very low employee turnover rate in both the purchasing and production departments. ComteqUSA is still highly profitable in the hardware business thanks in large part to her unique skill set. Anna was in sales for over 4 years before joining ComteqUSA and fully understands what corporate customers are looking for in a long-term relationship with a vendor. Anna has an extensive background in the computer industry and has worked in the industry in both the US as well as Taiwan.

Barry Bestpitch
Vice President of Professional Services

Mr. Bestpitch has over 23 years experience in Information Technology. Born and raised in Sacramento, California, in 1980 Mr. Bestpitch enlisted in the United States Naval Services where he learned to fly helicopters and program computers. Mr Bestpitch quickly adapted to the growing computer trend in the early 1980s and began writing computer programs for repetitive tasks and data storage.

After leaving the Navy, Mr. Bestpitch started his own computer company in the Los Angeles area where his customers quickly grew to companies like NBC, NASA, Universal Studios, and Capital Records.

In 1992 Mr. Bestpitch's company was contracted to build a computer network for a bank in Southern California. During this process, the bank and Mr. Bestpitch's company merged to become Bancdata Solutions, where Mr. Bestpitch became the CIO. Bancdata Solutions successfully designed and managed computer networks for 105 banks in the state of California until 1996 when it was purchased by Wells Fargo.

In 1996, GE Capital contacted Mr. Bestpitch to build a Professional Services Division in Northern California for large corporations. He was very successful with 47 engineers. Customers like Levi Strauss, Wells Fargo, Xerox, Chevron, the State of California and Clorox felt exceptional customer service.

In 2000 Mr. Bestpitch went to All Bases Covered where he was even more successful. Customer's soon realized that Mr. Bestpitch and his engineering team understood business and technology needs and designed information technology solutions around the needs of their customers' business.

Today at ComteqUSA, Mr. Bestpitch is building a Professional Services Division that can bring Enterprise Level Solutions to small and medium sized businesses at affordable prices.

Dr. Gerald L. Pauler
Managing IS&T Director

Dr. Gerald L. Pauler, Managing IS&T Director for ComteqUSA, is responsible for Strategic Technology Planning and business development including investments and acquisitions, engineering and advanced Internet projects, as well as legal and government affairs. Additional duties include management of the Comteq Training Center and the Microsoft Certified Partnership.

Prior to joining Comteq, Dr. Pauler performed Systems, Production, Engineering, Administration and Training assignments for PC Projects, TrueCost Consulting Inc., DOE, HDS, EDS, and InfoManage, among many others. Other projects include writing assignments for Microsoft, Que, Sybex and Net-Com Image, Inc. Along with CTEC W2K training assignments he is also active as an Adjunct Professor for Mission College, Evergreen Valley College and Golden Gate University.

Dr. Pauler holds a Ph.D. in Administrative/Computer Science from Oklahoma State University, an MBA degree from the University of Mississippi and a BA degree from Kansas State University (Emporia, KS). He is a Registered Professional Engineer (California License # 34 in Quality/Reliability Engineering) and served on the California State Board for Professional Engineer Registration. Networking credentials include Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (W2K & NT), Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (Charter Member), Certified Cisco Network Associate, NTCIP, A+, Certified Technical Trainer and Microsoft Certified Trainer.