The group included Skip Snyder, chairman of the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) and owner of the Snyder Company, Upper Darby, Pa.; Mark Watson, president of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association (SMACNA) and project manager for Climate Engineers, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Don Frendberg, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Heating, Airconditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI), Columbus, Ohio; and Dave Pannier, 2004 chairman of the board of the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) and president, residential systems for Trane and American Standard, Tyler, Texas.
Snyder believes that the best way to learn business skills is to network with other contractors. He is a member of an ACCA MIX® Group, a collection of noncompetitive contractors with similar business structures.