This month's Personal Profile focuses on Joel S. Becker, Chairman and CEO of Torrington Supply Company in Waterbury, Conn.
This month's Personal Profile focuses on Joel S. Becker, Chairman and CEO of Torrington Supply Company (TSC) in Waterbury, Conn. Joel is probably familiar to many readers because of his frequent speaking engagements at regional and national events. Joel's been a tireless supporter of employing technologies in our industry to enhance the efficiency and profitability of the channel.
TSC is a plumbing, HVAC and PVF distribution company with 7 locations in Connecticut, employing about 100 people. Joel joined the company in 1975 after completing 3 years of graduate school. (He has a master's in physics and a year of graduate work in biochemistry.) He was invited to join his wife's family business, together with Fred Stein, representing the 3rd generation in the enterprise. He worked his way from the warehouse to the sales counter to inside sales and purchasing. Over the ensuing years, he and Fred soon gravitated to a comfortable division of duties: Fred to sales, estimating and pricing, and Joel to operations. Ultimately, Joel rose through the ranks and in 1990 was named CEO on the retirement of the company's president, Morris Stein.