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Northeastern Technologies Group, Inc. was founded in 1991 by Chuck Comitto, Barbara Kurman, Au.D., and Joe Quartuccio as a special equipment distributor serving the New York Metropolitan areas, as well as New Jersey and part of New England.

The founders and owners bring extensive experience in the audiologic and instrumentation fields to their company. Their breadth of knowledge and commitment to excellence in customer service and support has earned them the premier position of special equipment distributor in their territory. They lecture and present at all the local and state association conventions as well as university and audiology training programs.


Joe Quartuccio
President
Joe Quartuccio (President) has been in the special equipment industry since 1978, and has owned his own special equipment distributorship, Northeastern Instrumentation, prior to the formation of Northeastern Technologies Group. Joe has extensive experience in sound room design, space allocation and computer aided drawing/design capability. His clinical experience has heretofore focused on industrial hearing conservation; and he owns a company, EarCare, Inc. that produces acoustically transparent ear disposable ear cushions for audiometric headphones. He has served on the Executive Board of NASED.


Chuck Comitto
VP Sales
Chuck Comitto (VP Sales) has been in the equipment industry since 1968, initially starting in a hearing aid repair capacity. He then moved into the special instruments field working for Madsen Electromedics which was the American distribution arm of Madsen Denmark. He left that position in 1975 and worked for a SID (Guinta Associates) in the sales capacity and eventually became VP of sales. In 1991 he left and formed Northeastern Technologies Group, Inc. with Barbara Kurman and Joseph Quartuccio. In 2001 Midlantic Technologies Group, LLC was formed with Barbara, Joe, Chuck, and Sherman Lord as managing members. Chuck has a BS in business and he brings a strong background in electrical engineering, sales and calibration/technical services and business administration. Chuck served as the first President of NASED (National Association of Special Equipment Distributors). He has provided extensive technical support to numerous Ph.D. doctoral thesis/dissertation and research projects.


Barbara L. Kurman, Au.D.
VP Marketing
Barbara Kurman, Au.D. (VP Marketing) has been a clinical audiologist since 1978. Dr. Kurman is Board Certified by the American Board of Audiology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology, and is Certified by the American Speech Language Hearing Association. She served as a clinician, clinical supervisor and coordinator in a major metropolitan medical center before joining a special equipment distributor company in 1982. She served as the Director of Marketing for VTA Management, a rehabilitation therapy company, prior to the formation of Northeastern Technologies Group. She has also served as President of the Metropolitan Audiology Study Group, Co Chair of the New York State Speech Language Hearing Association (NYSSLHA) Convention, served on the Board of NYSSLHA, and is a Past President of NASED and served on its Executive Board. Dr. Kurman has been awarded the 2009 Distinguished Service Award by the New York State Speech Language and Hearing Association. She has co-authored several articles and chapters of text books related to instrumentation in the audiology field.



In 2001 Midlantic Technologies Group, LLC was formed by the principals of Northeastern Technologies Group, in collaboration with Sherman G. Lord as managing members of the newly formed entity headquartered in Colmar, PA. Midlantic Technologies Group services PA, MD, DE, Wash, DC and upstate western NY.

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