Neenan hires employees for attitude, not job skills

FORT COLLINS – Wouldn’t it be neat if you could have your integrity and still make money in the construction industry? This is the question The Neenan Co. asks every day.Neenan Co. president and CEO David Neenan bought the company for $11,000 from Reid Burton, a Fort Collins builder, in 1973.
Neenan’s background, working in heavy construction for his uncle in Missouri, had prepared him for much of the work. Burton mentored him through his first few months in the Fort Collins business environment.
But it is Neenan’s degree in economics and philosophy from the University of Missouri, Columbia, that…