2024 Emerging Leaders Winners Announced

Chattanooga, TN, January 22, 2024-Winners of the 2024 Emerging Leaders are as follows:

* Daniel Arita, American Floor & Home, president, Honolulu, Hawaii, 38

* Drew Barber, Spokane Carpet One Floor & Home, co-owner, Spokane, Washington, 39

* Noah Boek, Christian Brothers Flooring & Interiors, project manager, Lakeside, California, 25

* Dustin Degreef, H.J. Martin and Son, project manager, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 35

* Kristin Rae Giebler, MAC Flooring, CEO, Aliso Viejo, California, 39

* William Huckaby, Bonitz, regional sales director, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 39

* Jeffrey Patenaude, M. Frank Higgins, senior estimator, Berlin, Connecticut, 36

* Steven Skutelsky, PID Floors, managing partner, New York, New York, 36

* Cecil Ward, W.C. Carpenter, vice president of sales, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 31

* Adam Zuur, Hoem & Associates, principal, South San Francisco, California, 38

The Emerging Leaders Award, hosted by Floor Focus, offers the opportunity for industry businesses to acknowledge the up-and-coming in their organizations. The 2024 winners, all under the age of 40, are a sampling of the industry’s best and brightest, those that will push the industry forward through innovation and thought leadership.

This year’s judges were marketing consultant and strategist Paul Friederichsen and consultant Jeanne Matson with the National Cooperative Business Association.