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JACOB ROSEBURROUGH WAREHOUSEQUOTE

WILL THOMAS C & M RESTORATION CO.

HENRY WEILER FISCHER WEILER INDUSTRIAL

For Jacob Rose burrough, entrep reneurship entails a sense of fear- lessness, tenacity, and curiosity. He applies all working for one of the

Will Thomas grew up in a family owned business dy- namic and was in fluenced early on by entrepreneurs his father interacted with in various business

In a cyclical field like commercial realty, one can find a certain measure of security working for a company with a brokerage with a global footprint.

associations. A key takeaway: Entre preneurs were changing people’s lives for the better. Now, the 29-year-old president of Concrete Masonry & Restoration Co. is extending the family ties to initiatives like the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program, and applying lessons learned there to his work. One application, he says, “has been through changing com pany culture to a more collaborative environment where team members get to see the full circle of what other team members’ responsibilities are outside of just their individual roles,” creating a better quality of life for all involved. Another is networking, leveraging relationships his father had built over the decades into a process for forming new ones with new customers.

And Henry Weiler did—for a few years. But if you’re the kind of go-getter who would operate a shaved ice-food truck in college, as he did, corporate real estate appeal is limited. So last fall, the 29-year-old and fellow big-firm refugee Andrew Fischer founded Fischer Weiler Industrial. “Being an entrepreneur is not for everyone,” Weiler says. “I feel as though I have truly demonstrated what it takes to be an entrepreneur throughout the years in my 20’s. I do not take for granted all the life lessons I have learned along the way to becoming a true entrepreneur.” He’s a Rockhurst MBA grad who played baseball there and knows something about building a team. In just a year, FWI is on track to close $105 million in total transaction volume.

region’s biggest entrepreneurial success stories of the past decade, NorthPoint Development. And in his case, North Point start-up WarehouseQuote. Rose burrough, 25, is the marketing director for that logistics-services company. In a startup capacity, that means “accepting the concept of failure quickly and taking a data-driven approach to continually improving marketing programs.” That’s what helped secure a $530 million payout with another NorthPoint venture, Beyond Self Storage, in 2019. He was a founding member of WarehouseQuote, which now employs 50 and has a three year growth rate of more than 1,000 percent, thanks in part to Roseburrough’s work leading marketing initiatives for the company.

Concrete & Masonry Restoration Company is proud to congratulate WILL THOMAS for being honored in Ingram’s 2022 class of 20 in Their Twenties www.cmrestore.com

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