Marilyn Grabowski
Marilyn Grabowski – Construction’s Lady in Red
If you are kicking off your 2015 business year with two Best in State awards and one international award, you are probably doing something very, very right. And that’s exactly the light Ms. Marilyn Grabowski, founder & CEO of Atlanticinfra company I currently basking in.
Ms Grabowski launched her firm in 2002, Valentines Day, when she and fellow she met in the gym worked out a better way to fix those darn potholes that plague us all. Their innovative method adds a different kind of asphalt goo plus a lot more heat to form an actual chemical weld – rather than a quick fill we so often see. Even more amazing than her remedy is Grabowski’s ability to seize opportunity. Four years ago, she spied an absolute void in companies who would locate and mark underground utility lines as part of the state’s “Call before you Dig” program. With a lunge she took her company from 20 to 85 employees in six short weeks – and the firm is still growing wildly. Her modest recipe fro handing such potentially lethal expnsion includes:
- no sleep;
- keeping your head and heart fixed on your mission, vision, and solid core values;
- Check and recheck everything about the new people you are bringing on board from personal character to driving records.
She is branded throughout New Jersey’s construction industry as “The Lady in Red” – the brand color of herself, all her trucks, and her employees. Truly eyecatching. To find out more about Marilyn Grabowski and her firms: Atlanticinfra Red, Atlanticinfra Structure, and Atlanticinfra Track, visit www.atlanticinfra.com.