ROSENDIN ELECTRIC
Rosendin was founded by Moses Rosendin . The company started life supporting the agricultural business in turn-of-thecentury Silicon Valley , winding pump motors , and rural electrification . As Rosendin grew over the next 95 years , the company developed into a multi-billion dollar , full service design + build electrical contractor and technology integrator . Expansion was first derived from working with Intel across Oregon , Phoenix and Albuquerque then jumped to geographich expansion encouraged by other customers , leading to what Rosendin Electric is today .
For Bill Mazzetti , Senior Vice President , his journey with Rosendin started back in 2005 and his introduction represented what he describes as a “ changing of
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1919 the guard ”. Mazzetti joined after divesting his family ’ s engineering business in 2004 to his old partners .
“ Looking at our progression as a company in the late 90 ’ s and into the 2000 ’ s , management bought out the Rosendin family via an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ( ESOP ), which widely distributed ownership of the firm . And then starting in 2005 , several new executives joined a growing number of home grown leaders all to add new perspective to the company ,” he says .
“ As we had some new ideas and our existing markets were getting a bit crowded , we started looking at opportunities that weren ’ t organically grown . Before , we worked with existing clients like Intel , we now work more prospectively and in concert with a strategic plan for the company .” Some of that growth came in the renewable energy and data center businesses . While the renewable energy business was founded as a wind power group in 2000 , in the past five years , it has blossomed into a leading provider of grid storage , distributed generation and grid-based
52 March 2017