Name: Dave Gauthier
Title: President
Company: Vantem Panels
Location: Brattleboro, Vermont
Place of birth: Northern New Hampshire
Family: Married with two children
College: University of Massachusetts.
First job unrelated to your current field: Consultant forester throughout central Massachusetts.
First job in current field: I owned my own timber frame company through which I first started installing structural insulated panels across New England beginning in the mid 1980s.
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? Vantem Panels currently manufactures structural insulated panels and ships world wide. Our panels can come with either Urethane or EPS cores, R-Values ranging from 15 to 50, and lengths from 8 feet to 24 feet. We are now expanding our product line to include prefabricated kit homes which are designed to be inexpensive to build, have a totally customizable interior and be net zero energy capable.
Hobbies: In my free time I enjoy flying my powered paraglider throughout the northeast though mostly along the Connecticut River valley.