Harold Green- From Building Roads to Building a Sustainable Future (#92)

Bio Harold Green CEO and Ecopreneur Mr. Green is a lifelong entrepreneur focused on developing and investing in cutting edge business solutions that embrace technology as a means to improve the performance and longevity of products or services. With youthful zeal and a lifelong creative talent to seek out new and existing challenges, Harold’s business interests have evolved from the traditional asphalt paving services started in 1976 (Chamberlain Contractors) to current day activities that include the development and manufacture of Foam Stabilizing Base at Global Resource Recyclers, Inc. and Global Emissionairy, LLC. Show Notes Started Chamberlain Contractors in the mid 1970s and wanted to differentiate his company from others (5:50) His creation of Foam Stabilizing Base manufactering in 2006 set him on the path to become aware of carbon emission reduction and the opportunity (6:30) Cap and Trade was being discussed and he saw it as an opportunity Created first transportation based recycling and carbon credit opportunity (8:00) Verified Carbon Units (8:30) Origins Always an entrepreneur as a child- maintained tennis courts, deveined shrimp in Plainfield, NJ (8:50) Dad was a successful entrepreneur yet died when he was 16 yrs. old (9:30) Boarding School- Choate Rosemary Hall School (10:20) College never happened- Started at George Washington University (10:45) Came to DC and got an apartment Becoming an Entrepreneur- Chamberlain Contractors Paved parking lot at McDonalds on New York Ave. in DC (11:00) Met a senior executive at 21 yrs. old and got a 26 lot assignment from McDonalds in the region (11:30) 1980 came along and he was burned by an SBA loan being called (12:20) Decided not to use debt after that (12:45) Incorporated in 1976 as Chamberlain Contractors (13:15) Worked with developers and property managers on commercial and residential properties (14:00) Not interested in top line volume (14:30) Founded Global Resource Recycling to recycle asphalt and reuse them (15:15) Challenges- equity to start business (16:00) Never took a paycheck in first 7 years of business (16:30) Built his business from scratch Reinvested everything back into the business (18:00) Paid back $500K loan in 1980 by hard work and discipline and stay within his means (18:30) Bought first milling machine in 1984 and paid it back in 6 weeks with one huge job (20:40) Equipment all self funded with income from business (21:30) Built business to 60 employees in 1987 when he got married (22:15) Called "The Boy" by his customers (23:20) "Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance" (23:45) Teach people how to work onsite and understand the details (24:30) Quality control on site- be there and be conversational with clients (25:00) Component parts of business (25:30) Set up an Advisory Committee in 1981 to help him manage his business (27...