![]() ![]() ![]() It’s just not a very sexy business, which is why it’s important that we tell my story. That led to me taking a regional manager position, then becoming vice president of sales, and eventually transitioning into this role as CEO and president.Īnd, today, we still fight the same thing that kept me from saying yes originally. With a fantastic team as well as a move into a larger facility, we built it into a premier location. Eventually, I concentrated exclusively on Lancaster. I later got a little cocky and told the regional that if he fired the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, manager, I could manage both and be better than the other guy was by myself. The York, Pennsylvania, branch manager took that opening, and I took over York, Pennsylvania, sight unseen. Upper management was straightforward in telling me they felt it would be difficult to jump into such a large branch and to go from being one of the boys to the boss. I went on the road about 11 months after my hire and received some high sales honors until the guy who hired me was promoted in July 1991, and I threw my hat in the ring for his job. His meteoric rise reached its ceiling in 2015, when he was named CEO and president. Doug Riley started with the company as a temporary worker in 1985. He went on to lay out a path for me to follow from a brief stint inside to my own territory. ![]() It’s plumbing and heating supplies, and you’ll be at a party with your buddies and someone will ask you, ‘What you do for a living?’ and you’ll be embarrassed to tell them.” I said, “That’s fairly accurate.” He went on to tell me that he earned an undergraduate degree from Duke and a master’s degree from George Washington, and the reason why he was in this business is because these are products that people will always need, and you can make a lot of money at it. It was about a month later when the manager of Fairfax called me and said, “Why don’t you meet me for lunch and hear what I have to say.” He was quick to cut to the chase. I thought, free lunch, OK, I’ll meet you. A few weeks passed, and I was still looking for the right job, when the regional manager called and wanted to buy me lunch to discuss the opportunity. As I approached the end of my senior year, the Rockville manager - who asked if I would come to work for him - called me. I cleared the aisles fairly quickly by getting everything on the shelves and was asked to work the counter the rest of the summer. They hired me immediately to get them caught up on the incoming freight that had piled up in their aisles. Somerville, told me to go see if they needed help at the Fairfax branch. A former college roommate, who was working in the credit department at Thos. In 1985, I was looking for a summer job between my junior and senior years at George Mason. Volunteer on and findagrave.Riley: To me, I think it’s pretty crazy that it ever happened. source: WikipediaĬhristian, Conservative, American, Texan, Blogger, Writer, Webmaster, and Family Historian.īachelor of Science in Information Systems Security 2011. The later English Kings of the House of Stuart, from James I and Charles I onwards, were more properly members of the Stewart of Darnley branch, and all drew upon their feudal heritage in Lennox. The son of this union James VI of Scots succeeded to the throne of England as James I. In 1565 the House of Stewart of Darnley was re-united with the Royal House of Stewart when Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley married his first cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, both being grandchildren of Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England, and hence both having claim to the English throne. Stewart of Darnley was a notable Scots family, a branch of the Clan Stewart, who provided the English Stuart monarchs with their male-line Stuart descent, after the reunion of their branch with the royal Scottish branch, which led to the ultimate union of the two main kingdoms of Great Britain: England and Scotland. Like the Royal Stewarts, the Stewarts of Darnley used both the Stuart and the Stewart spelling of their surname.Īlexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland In 1356, Robert Stewart, High Steward of Scotland granted the barony to Sir John Stewart. Their name is derived from Derneley, a barony in Eastwood parish, Renfrewshire one & a half miles east of Barrhead, present day Darnley, within the city of Glasgow. The Stewarts of Darnley were descended from Sir John Stewart of Bonkyll, the second son of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland.
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