Dave chose to work at RMC for two reasons: “One, to come work with somebody I’d know and respected for a long time; two, to take an opportunity to help a small but growing company continue on it’s path.”
“We help companies and individuals who have experienced some form of property damage by restoring the property to its pre-loss condition.”
RMC has clients in every public and private sector you can imagine. If an individual or entity owns, rents, or is in control of a residential, commercial, or industrial building, we can serve them when they experience any type of property loss.
Dave’s background is in Finance & Accounting. After graduating from UC Berkley’s School of Business, he started his career at Arthur Anderson and company, at the time, the largest public accounting and consulting company in the world. From there he went to work in Silicon Valley for a few well known publicly traded technology firms. After moving up the ranks in the finance and accounting arena for the billion dollar companies, he took a huge leap of faith to come work for Jon.
“I started out simply trying to help him find the right person to lead RMC’s Finance and Accounting function. However, after a short search period, he convinced me to take the role myself! It was a risky move, but has proven to be the best professional decision I’ve ever made.”
Dave started out as RMC’s Chief Financial Officer, overseeing all Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, and Legal & Compliance, activities. Over the past 4 plus years, we’ve brought on VP’s to directly oversee both HR and Finance & Accounting. During that time, Dave has taken a more active role in Legal, Corporate Compliance, and Risk Management activities and recently took on the role of EVP, Chief Risk Officer.
“While I still get involved in most of the things I’ve done over the past 20 years, I’m spending more time making sure RMC is compliant in various areas across the company, including legal and contracts related activities. In addition, I serve on the RMC’s Executive Leadership Team, helping to establish and direct strategic initiatives for the company. “
One of Dave’s biggest accomplishments at RMC so far is overseeing and guiding the company’s finances through a period of continuous substantial growth comes to mind. One would be surprised how challenging this type of continued growth can be from a cash flow perspective in a relatively low margin industry.
“I’d say we’re a group of hardworking people who take pride in providing great service to our clients. The culture really stems from the type of people we strive to hire: service-minded, team-work minded, friendly people who take pride in doing great things for our clients…at a time when our clients are really in need.”
Something that surprises Dave the most about working for Restoration Management Company is, how hard working the technicians are. “It’s difficult work and, at times, not too glamorous. However, our techs show up every day ready to do great things. It’s impressive!”
“Seeing the company continue its growth without the need to merge with others in the industry. The restoration space is in consolidation mode with most of the better companies merging or taking on equity partners in one way or another. I’m looking forward to continuing our growth while bucking that trend! “
Dave’s reason for staying with RMC for his long tenure is; “Although we’ve only recently started to promote these values, we’ve really lived them all along. Given that, I’m not consciously aware of them as I go about my day. However, when I come across a situation when one of our values hasn’t come across as strongly as it should, it will clearly stand out to me. When that opportunity presents itself, I’ll use it as a teaching / mentoring opportunity. It doesn’t happen often, but it has on occasion.
