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specialize in concrete in a location conducive to year-round work, he chose Orlando, Florida, where he established Seretta. During Seretta’ s first year, he focused on connecting with as many people as possible to secure jobs, eventually landing his first project after nearly a year. At that time, Seretta had no employees apart from Richard, so he scrambled to find his first crew, to perform the work. In 1989, his son Andrew McPherson, FTCA, joined the company, and he began overseeing its dayto-day operations. I joined Seretta in 1993. I’ ve always admired Andrew’ s ability to grow the business while upholding the same family values instilled by his father, even after Richard’ s departure in 2007. In 2001, tilt up concrete business was booming and we wanted to expand our services to different regions. We opened our second office in Charlotte and I relocated to run the Mid- Atlantic office. Fast forward to last year, I was promoted to President and Seretta became
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