Construction ESOP Collective Podcast

Rick Otto was born and raised Amish in Arthur, Illinois, went to work in a truss plant at 17 and joined Coach House Garages on the building crew,…

Ben Nichols is a third-generation Marine and Naval Academy graduate who led combat engineers in Afghanistan and served with the Navy Seabees before…

David Jaeger started Nor-Cal Pipeline Services with his father in 2007 with one truck and three employees. Eighteen years later the business runs…

Jeremy Garrett grew up around his dad's electrical contracting company in Lake Orion, Michigan, which his father ran for more than 40 years before…

Bobby Sigmon began his career at Sessa Sheet Metal Contractors as an apprentice and worked his way to president over a 25-year career. He joins Chuck…

Bob Whalen bought seven and a half percent of a nearly hundred-year-old mechanical contractor in 2008, then talked his own board into selling the…

Ralph Dumke started Waterline Industries 30 days after the 1987 stock market crash with a pickup truck, a shovel and his house on the line for…

For a bonded contractor, an ESOP is more than an ownership decision. The transaction can materially change what a surety sees on the balance sheet,…

Bill Duguay spent years inside a heavy civil contractor that sold itself to its own people, and he does not pretend the deal was simple. In this…