Name: "Gus" - Steven Augustus Sarff III
Title: President
Company: GS Associates, Inc.
Location: 65 Parker Street, Newburyport, MA 01950
Place of birth: Los Angeles, CA
Family: Wife, 2 sons, 1 daughter
College: San Diego State University
First job unrelated to your current field: Solar energy system sales and installation
First job in current field: Project controller, Sheraton Corp. Sheraton Grande, LA
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? Contract purchasing for hotel FF&E and OS&E. Merge with global technology for improving manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, sustainability, and control.
Hobbies: International economics, tennis, golf, wine collecting.
Favorite novel: The Economist - (weekly magazine but reads like a novel!)
Favorite film: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Favorite website: The Bottle Shop
Keys to success: Say what you do, do what you say and always look at yourself honestly. Take calculated risks.
Person(s) you most admire (outside of family): Discoverers, adventurers, revolutionaries who have the courage to risk all for a noble cause.
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? College Professor of Economics or wine maker.