Ron Alber:  

As many of my classmates will remember, I was and still am a workaholic. I can remember cutting school my senior year at DC to go to work at a local Cabinet shop. After graduation I continued working at that shop and at 20, started my own with no money and a few small tools and machines. Within 5 years my company was the largest in Sacramento employing over 80 workers and producing 20 complete houses of cabinets a day. I got into construction and started building my own houses and apartments. I met and married a beautiful women (never had any girlfriends in High School as I was the little nerdy kid), and after having a beautiful daughter with her, got divorced at 31. Divorces are really expensive in California when you have a lot of assets and it set me back tremendously. I sold the business and started several more including the Sacramento Bingo Palace which is still in existence today (I sold it, damnnnn) and doing very well. I pored all that money into a import/export business in the Philippines and lost everything there as I was too cocky and full of myself for my own good. Learned an incredible lesson there and after going broke had to start all over again. So, having said I would never (never say never) get back into the cabinet business, I started a small cabinet shop with the goal of moving it to Tijuana Mexico within a year. I got a group of investors from Sacramento together and headed to Tijuana to find a plant to move into. Found a hell of an opportunity and took over an existing plant which had been abandoned when the company went bankrupt. Built that business up and eventually sold it to the third largest office furniture company in the world at the time. I stayed on for a few years running the company and living in Mexico until my time was up. I loved li...Expand for more