Executive | Branch Managers | Sales Team | Office Staff | Warehouse Staff

Branch Managers

Rob Mathias, Auburn, MA
Biographical information is coming soon.

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Jose Rivera, Billerica, MA
Biographical information is coming soon.

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Butch Mixon, Manchester, NH
Butch had been working for a roofing company and was tired of falling behind on his bills every winter. In the spring of 1985 he learned that W.J. Grosvenor's was looking for a driver, so he came in to talk with Bernie McHugh, and started working for Grosvenor's the following week. He began driving our company truck out of our original warehouse in Medford, getting lost in Boston became part of his normal routine. At that time, the Billerica, Medford, and Brockton branches were well established and the Manchester branch had only opened the year before. As time passed and Grosvenor's expanded with new branches and moved the offices and warehouse to a new combined Billerica branch and headquarters. In 1999, Butch

decided he wanted a change and gave sales a shot first assisting in Medford and becoming the branch manager of Manchester in 2001.

In his spare time, Butch enjoys whitewater kayaking, hiking, and rock climbing throughout the northeast. He looks forward to building a post and beam log cabin in the woods of Vermont and trying to talk Grosvenor's into opening up a location just down the road a piece. Anyone reading this is encouraged to mention how great it would be to have a store in Barre, VT.

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Victor Perez, Medford, MA
Victor got his start working for Tom Rich's Flooring managing their warehouse. His position evolved into Warehouse Manager/Truck Driver/Sales/Office worker/etc. basically whatever needed to be done Victor would do it. Tom Rich eventually was sold to Classic Floors and Victor continued working for Classic for about a year until he heard Grosvenor's was looking for a new branch manager, he was reluctant to apply because he didn't feel he had the experience necessary but Sal saw something in him and now over 3 1/2 years later W.J. Grosvenor's Medford branch continues to thrive and with Victor's ability to speak both English and Spanish fluently he has been a great fit for the Medford Branch.

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Mike Crealese, Norwood, MA
Biographical information is coming soon.

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Paul Lynch, Brockton, MA
Before he got his start in the flooring industry, Paul was employed as a diesel mechanic for Greyhound Bus Lines. Some 20 years ago he began as an installer in Hingham, MA working for TC Installations and later as a sub contractor for Baystate Flooring, Nationwide Flooring, and Hancock Paint. He eventually became a branch manager for Carpet Products until he joined Grosvenor in 1996.

Paul enjoys automotive restoration, welding, playing guitar, and spending time with his two children. He listens to all types of music from Classical to Blues and Metal. He will not allow us to take his picture with our "voodoo camera's"....whatever that means.

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Mike Molinari, Rockland, MA
Biographical information is coming soon.

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Jay Nettesheim, Portland, ME
Jay has over 27 years experience is the floor covering world. He began working for a friends father in Colorado back in 1980 working mostly in high end homes. He spent 5 years learning the ropes and absorbing as much information as possible. He went out on his own for a few years until he got involved in commercial flooring and took on a partner and with 6 employee's begain working in banks and office buildings. He has certifications from CRS and Armstrong but like most there is no substitute for hands on training.

In 1993 he decided to try a new direction and he got involved in custom rug making. He moved to Maine in 2000 after spending summer vacations there since the mid-80's. He still makes custom rugs out of his home shop in Gorham, ME. In March 2004 Jay joined Grosvenor's as the Portland branch manager and enjoy's dealing with all the people he works with, from customers to vendors and he says "It is truly the best job I have ever had working here at W.J.Grosvenor's. There is never a dull moment working here."

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Joe Skarbek, Springfield, MA
Joe began his career doing everything from binding, carpet cleaning and installation, to Oriental rug repairs for American Rug back in 1974. Two years later he began installing VCT, cermamic, and vinyl. He moved into sales from 1978-1982 until he went back to installing and in 1987 decided to open up his own store, The Floor Store of Chicopee from 1987-1991, in 1991 he went back into installing for the next 15 years until he was hired as the Springfield Branch Manager in 2006. Joe spent 4 years at Holyoke Community College studying business.

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Donald Drape, Warwick, RI
After 28 years of working for Carpet Products Don joined W.J. Grosvenor's in 2006. Over the last 30 years Don has attended countless seminars and performed several in-house demonstrations. His knowledge of products and ability to track down the answers his customers need he has earned a large customer base in Rhode Island.

Don's open houses and parties continue to have record attendance and are truly are a don't miss event.

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Mark Kelley, Woburn, MA
Mark has been in the flooring industry for 25 years. This includes sales and installation experience in both residential and commercial flooring. Mark was employed as an Installation Manager and in customer service for the flooring industry prior to joining Grosvenor's six years ago.

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Sal DeRosa, COO, Chief Operating Officer
Sal began working at W.J. Grosvenor & Co., Inc. in 1995 and was hired as the Credit Manager/Controller.  In 2001, he was promoted to General Manager. In 2008, Sal became the Chief Operating Officer, his current position.  Sal graduated from Boston Latin High School in 1987. He received his B.S. from Suffolk University in 1991 and then went on to earn his M.B.A. from Bentley College in 1995.  Currently, he is serving a three-year term on the Board of Directors for F.I.A.N.A. (Floor Installation Association of North America).  Since 2004, he has been the Treasurer of Saint Anthony's Society of Boston's North End, a non-profit organization.  He has been volunteering with the Tewksbury Youth Baseball League as a coach/assistant coach for 4 years. He also coached for Tewksbury Boys’ Basketball.

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Bernie McHugh, Owner / President
Born in 1952 in Watertown, Mass., Bernie grew up in a place where "Silent Spring" was real. The only wild animals he remembers from his childhood are squirrels, pigeons and the Mallards at Norumbega Park. Everything else in the neighborhood had been poisoned. He has vivid memories of the Charles River as a stinking and quite colorful waterway, thanks to the local plastic and dye plants. He also can't remember a time when he didn't know what a knee kicker was.

Thus, until he married field botanist and land stewardship planner Frances Clark in

1983 and was obliged to start spending some time out-of-doors, he literally thought all the wildlife was in Africa. His "transformative nature experience", if it can be termed such, was seeing his first Wood Duck (not Woodchuck) at Great Meadows in Concord in 1984. That led him into the seedy underworld of birding, from which he has yet to emerge. Bernie has seen more than 600 North American bird species. His most recent "lifer" was the elusive Bristle-thighed Curlew, seen 70 miles north of Nome. He regularly dreams about sea ducks.

Bernie's academic career was markedly undistinguished. He graduated from Watertown High in 1970 and in 1974 wrestled a B.A. in Communications from the grasp of the Registrar at the University of New Hampshire. A glance at his transcript reveals that he has credits in Astrology and Utopian Systems, along with more arcane subjects such as Organizational Management.

Bernie owns W.J. Grosvenor & Co. Inc., a wholesale distribution business which sells floor covering supplies, where he has worked since 1975. (Actually, since 1962 but since he was only 10, we don't want OSHA to know about that.) In 1996, he restructured the business to take himself out of daily operations so he could expand his volunteer conservation work.The company now pays him not to show up and mess around with things he doesn't understand anymore. His management techniques owe much to the books "Up the Organization" and "Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun".

Since 1999, he has served on a volunteer basis as the Coordinator for the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition, an association of over 100 land and water conservation groups dedicated to promoting land protection in the Commonwealth. He also serves as Citizen Education Coordinator for the Environmental League of Massachusetts (ELM). In both capacities, he does communications and advocacy work on behalf of the state's land trusts and environmental groups. He was named the "Citizen Activist of the Year" in 2003 by ELM. He is co-founder of the Religious Lands Conservancy Project, which works with religious communities to protect their lands from development.

He currently serves on the Boards of the Environmental League of Mass. and the Mass. Outdoor Heritage Foundation and is on the Advisory Councils of Mass Audubon and the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences. He is a former Board member of Manomet, Sudbury Valley Trustees, Lincoln Land Conservation Trust, and Crystal Spring Center for Earth Education and has served on the Land Trust Alliance's National Land Trust Council, the Putnam Conservation Institute Advisory Council, and as an Overseer of the New England Wildflower Society. He also works with a East African safari outfitter to provide guides and naturalists in Tanzania with binoculars, computer equipment and conservation education funds and supports conservation groups in Russia and the Rockies.

And occasionally, he shows up unannounced at W.J. Grosvenor & Company and scares the hell out of everybody.

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