Name: Alex Babbidge
Title: President
Company: Babbidge Construction Company, Inc.
Location: New Haven, CT
Place of birth: Hartford Hospital
Family: Married for 26 years with three great kids (20, 16, and 15)
College: BA from Yale and MBA from UConn
First job unrelated to your current field: Night shift at Burger King
First job in current field: Construction laborer
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? As we have for the past twenty years, we focus on demanding projects in the private institutional and commercial markets within Connecticut. Future plans include extending our current services to a broader client base.
Hobbies: Reading, exercise, working on our house in Maine
Favorite novel: "Moby Dick" (really). Favorite recent novel is "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr.
Favorite film: "Deer Hunter"
Keys to success: Perseverance
Person(s) you most admire (outside of family): Teddy Roosevelt
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Asthma is the only thing that kept me from pursuing a career as a Marine Corps officer.