A day after graduating from Marquette University (and just weeks before his twenty-first birthday), Chris began his professional career by buying the family business from his father. After eight years, Chris sold that business and then spent seven years in Bermuda with a large retail-based investment firm. In 2016, Chris founded Small Business Growth Partners with Terry Elton, and together they’ve built a private business coaching firm that focuses on builders, remodelers, and HBA Associate Members.

Terry grew up in the building industry, working at his father’s excavating company from the time he was a child through college. Terry watched as his dad worked long, hard hours his whole life only to sell the business with only little in savings and no retirement fund. It was then that Terry became passionate about helping construction and trade companies shape their work so it doesn’t consume every waking hour of their lives while, at the same time, making enough to secure their future.