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Last year, at 34, Amber Sheehan-Jelinek won recognition in Distribution Trends’ “Top 40 Under 40” feature. Younger than most executives but boasting a longer tenure than many, she has taken the road less traveled in a couple of ways.
My advice to myself would be to make sure that I paint a clear and honest picture of the situation for our people and to trust in the power of a common goal and the abilities of the excellent people in the company. I’d tell myself to worry a whole lot less and enjoy the ride a lot more.
It’s our goal to leave a legacy so that on the day our team members retire, they can look back and say their lives were better off because they were a part of the ACR family.
The Thos. Somerville Co. was founded in 1861. Doug Riley started with the company as a temporary worker in 1985. His meteoric rise reached its ceiling in 2015, when he was named CEO and president.
Back when I started, we always tried to do what was right for our customers and employees. That holds true today. We’ll absolutely put ourselves in our employees’ and customers’ positions and use that as a sounding board for whether we’re doing the right thing.
I rolled into Denver almost 30 years ago to the day. The business was doing about $700,000 annually and losing money due to the oil bust. Today, we have eight separate Winair companies doing more than $45 million.
You hold a distinct position in the HVACR wholesale industry. You were HARDI’s first president, taking the reins in 2003. That was 14 years ago. Give us a sense of the changes you’ve seen.
There have been a few changes since you became involved with APR Supply Co. You are now its president and CEO. Please give us some background on the company, how you first became involved and where the company is today.
