ABOUT BRIAN FORMAN…..FOUNDER
Education
- Boston College honors student
- Cum laude graduate
- Academic studies in four schools:
- Business Law
- School of Education
- Pre-Medicine
- Arts & Sciences
- Apprenticed cabinet maker
- Studied Nakashima furniture making
- Graduate of the GE School of Lighting Design
Past Experience
- Juried participant of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen
- Project manager for Montgomery County Redevelopment Authority
- Manufacturing consultant for several custom cabinetry and design firms
- Contractor & coordinator for the Housing and Urban Development national program (HUD)
- Real estate developer
- Consultant to Workbench Custom Scandinavian Design Division
- International export coordinator: Japan, France
- Marketing and Sales consultant
Special talents and recognition
- Winner of the Manufacturers Presidents Award (ten times) for highest volume of any single location account
- Sub-Zero Design Contest winner
- Five time Cabinet Manufacturers Award winner for excellence
- Professional automotive designer and fabricator (factory trained at BMW & M.B.)
- Recipient of 3 U.S. patents for hardware design
- Founder of the first (1975) fiber-winding-core recycling operation for the paper industry (current president)
- Ornithologist (biology major)
- Member: PBA, SUHBA, NKBA, ASID, NARI