Name: Joe Barbone
Title: President & CEO
Company: Methuen Construction Co., Inc.
Location: Salem, N.H.
Place of birth: Haverhill, Mass.
Family: Wife with 2 children
College: UMass-Lowell
First job unrelated to your current field: Delivering newspapers
First job in current field: Millstone Station Nuclear Power Plant
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? Heavy industrial building construction including general contracting, design/build and construction management. subsidiaries also include Summit Metal Fabricators offering miscellaneous metals and structural steel fabrication and installation and Methuen Construction Facilities Services offering facilities management, repair, maintenance, and capital improvements. Future plans include controlled and systematic growth within a much larger home office and fabrication facility located in Plaistow, NH with occupancy scheduled for 1st quarter 2016.
Hobbies: Skiing; golfing; boating; fishing
Favorite novel: "The Great Bridge" by David McCullough
Favorite film: "My Cousin Vinny"
Keys to success: Assembling and putting your trust into a talented group of teammates within a high energy, challenging, professional and respectful environment.