Sponsored by: Allied Building Products Corporation
When he was in high school, John Dudley Jr. started working for a close friend’s father during the summers and on the weekends, doing general contracting and eventually roofing work. He then went off to college to pursue a finance degree, and within about a year he was picked up by Student Painters, a business that trains college students to run companies. Dudley quickly rose up the ranks to regional manager, where he ran about half of the New England division, and when he finished college he combined his construction background with his management experience to make a strategic career decision.