NAEC And Me: Guest - Jeff Eaton NAEC Board Member NAEC and Me with Alesa McArthur

NAEC And Me: Guest - Jeff Eaton NAEC Board Member



Hi guys, this is Alesa.  I'm coming to you today with a great guest on my show and I can't wait to hear a little bit about what Jeff has to say. His name is Jeff Eaton and I am with the National Association of Elevator Contractors. Jeff is one of our board members. I wanted him to join us today because I think he has some great insights both from his part of the country out in California and also about what's going on in the world of potential mergers and acquisitions with the elevator industry. So Jeff I'd really like to start with you giving us a little bit of information about you and your business Lifts Advisors. -Sure well with respect to our industry I was fortunate enough to start with Otis Elevator back in 1989, which really dates me. But it doesn't take much math to see that's more than 30-years ago. But never would have imagined back then that I'd still be in the industry you know. More than three decades later but it's been a great run. I've had a lot of fortunate opportunities to work in various positions in five different countries which has been a great way to see a lot of the world and I've had a lot of what would be considered you know kind of normal elevator industry jobs, you know running branches and things like that but I've been able to do some things which really opened my eyes to you know not just what happens in big companies but you know how international business is conducted etc. Specifically I had two different stints working in Russia.The first time from 89 to 94. The beginning of that was still the Soviet Union and then you know had another stint from 04 through 07 so saw a big change in that country.