Wow, well where to begin, I starterd working as a carpet cleaner for my future father in law when I was 21. My wifes family business was started by her grandfather in 1936 as a window washing company and transformed into a wall washing company and eventually a carpet cleaning firm. The company was based in Seattle and named Ace Cartozian Custom Care. We (I married my bride at 22) had 4 what we called in the old days on location trucks (truckmounts) misc delivery trucks, a 16 foot More Roll-a-Jet inplant rug washer and dry room and lots of Dri-Eaz restoration equipment for WDR. I went to classes and worked in all aspects of the business. We also had a small supply business where we sold Chemsped Chemicals. My father in law, Bob Pace was a freind to every cleaner and strong supporter of the CCINW so the supply business grew. In 1990 I convinced my father in law to sell the cleaning business and venture into full time distribution. We started Preferred Chemicals and Equipment and built a very well respected distributorship that I later purhased from my family. As far as the money this industry has provided for both sides of my families very well as it is one that you get from it what you put into it. In 2006 I was given the opportunity to sell to
Jon Don and work for a great group of people, The Paolellas treated myself and our employees like family. Bill Bruders and I both share great passion for this great industry and it made sense for me to make the move to the manufacturing segment so almost 2 years ago I joined the
Legend Brands team. As far as my role in the organisation I work in sales, product development, product testing, what ever is needed. I get to work with some of the best people including that hard to get along with guy Keith Studebaker. I have been blessed to make many very good friends in this industry and get to continue working with them. Hope this answers some of your questions and lets you know I have walked in the shoes of cleaners.
As far as the Seahawks I am a huge fan and I am fine until someone brings it up again, Thanks for asking.