2023
South Dakota Sales and Marketing Executive of the Year™ award.
Tom Van Wyhe, Trane
A native of Steen, MN.
Civil Engineering graduate of South Dakota Mines. Graduate of Worthington State Junior College. 4 years college basketball. 2 Conference Championship teams.
Arrived in Sioux Falls in 1973 as a Sales Engineer for JSI Trane, representing Trane Commercial HVAC systems and service. Just 2 employees then, now 20 something.
Owner of JSI Trane with Sioux Falls and Rapid City locations.
Sold JSI Trane to corporate Trane and worked later years as a regional corporate executive for Trane in the upper Midwest.
Married to Crystal, 5 adult children, 8 grandchildren
Have been known in Sioux Falls and surrounding area for community engagement and leadership.
Served as Chairman of the Board of the following 13 organizations:
- Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce
- Sioux Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau (Experience Sioux Falls)
- Sales and Marketing Executives of Sioux Falls
- Sioux Empire Housing Partnership
- Rotary West
- Westward Ho Country Club (The Country Club of Sioux Falls)
- Sanford Health Foundation
- American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers – South Dakota Chapter
- Sioux Falls Arena/Convention/Entertainment Center Public Facility Board
- Sioux Empire Junior Achievement
- Sioux Empire Farm Show
- Orpheum Theater
- Good Samaritan Society Foundation National Board
Member South Dakota Air National Guard: 1968-1974
Member Downtown Rotary. Served on Board of Directors.