Company: Summit Fire Protection
Headquarters: Circle Pines
Founded: 1999
Employees: About 300
Web: www.summitfire.com
Revenues (2005): About $47 million
Background: After working as a CPA for RSM McGladrey, Rubald
became CFO at Viking Automatic Sprinkler in 1995. He founded Summit Fire
Protection in 1999 after losing his job due to corporate restructuring.
Installation and maintenance of sprinkler systems constitute Summit’s core
business. In 2003, Rubald began to offer fire-safety consulting services for
business. Summit now has six offices in Minnesota and Iowa, and has become the
second-largest fire sprinkler company in Minnesota.
In
His Own Words: “We are going to continue to grow, continue to expand, to look
for other avenues of fire protection—not just sprinkler systems but more
life-safety systems, which isn’t only sprinklers but also smoke detectors,
alarms, extinguishers, and other systems.”
