CertaPro History
This is the legal name of CertaPro Painters.
What is Certa ProPainters Ltd?
This is the one year we did not have a conference in the 2000's.
What is 2007?
Besides Charlie Chase, Scott Mossip, & Ed Waller this person was also "in the room where it happened" when the company was founded.
Who is George Irving?
This person was our SW rep before Bill Palliser.
Who is Rick May?
This person was renowned for committing offensive fouls in our Monday pick-up basketball games.
Who is Rich Wilson?
This Canadian employee was the first person to teach Commercial Training.
Who is Ian Van Heyst?
This was considered by many to be our "favorite" venue to have a conference until we outgrew it.
What is La Quinta?
The first franchisee to do $1MM as a rookie in 1 turf.
Who is Ray Shanahan?
This person established PQI at Rohm & Haas and was one of our earliest supporters at our conference.
Who is Debbie Zimmer?
These 2 former corporate employees met, fell in love and got married here at CertaPro.
Who are Jason Seward & Julie McCandless?
This person is the 3rd most tenured person at CertaPro.
Who is Jeff Lee?
This year debuted the first Jeff & Jeff video.
What is 2013?
This franchisee hired Mike Stone as a RSA.
Who is Dan Hutchins?
Rick and Sang are related this way.
What is through marriage (Sang is his son-in-law)?
In Certa Notes you often had to do this action to get your data.
What is Replicate?
This person was the original "VP of IT".
Who is Ed Waller?
At this event Jeff Lee was a co-host (with Jeff Bien) and ran 6 breakout sessions.
What is the Sales Conference in 2014 in Las Vegas?
This franchisee is the first to utilize the famous powerpoint tactic in commercial sales and shared the idea with corporate.
Who is Martin Bahner?
The original film editor of the Jeff & Jeff Videos.
Who is Joel Rechenbach?
Certa City is the latest version of what used to be called this type of town.
What is Toon Town?
The CSS as it was rolled out in 2006 had 5 steps. This was the 6th step added later.
What is Initial Contact?
A representative from this company blurted out an embarrassing phrase from an Austin Powers movie while impersonating one of the "Femme Bots".
What is IDP aka Astley Gilbert?
This person was a franchisee twice, worked for corporate in 2 different brands and won the 2014 CertaCup.
Who is Joel Bell?
This person was "asked" to work for CertaPro by an executive at Rohm & Haas, his $6 MM client, b/c his son-in-law was starting a new company.
Who is Ray Demoss?
This was the name of the training database in Certa Notes.
What is Pleasantville?