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From Marine Corps to CEO of a $750M Employee-Owned Contractor: Ben Nichols of Harkins Builders
What does it take to lead a $750 million employee-owned contractor, and how does a construction ESOP turn a career into a retirement nobody has to worry about?
Ben Nichols, President and CEO of Harkins Builders, joins Chuck Mazzanti to share how the Columbia, Maryland general contractor became 100% employee-owned in 2001, why its founder's successor, Blase Cooke, made the ESOP decision while facing terminal cancer, and how that decision has produced dozens of employee owners with more than a million dollars in their ESOP accounts.
Ben is a third-generation Marine and Naval Academy graduate…
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