Tim Dupre, 36

President and COO, Conditioned Air Co.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 12:40 p.m. October 14, 2016
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A family friend, Bill Barnes, who was vice president of Naples-based Conditioned Air, asked Tim Dupre a question in 1997 that changed the then teenager’s life. Asked Barnes: “Do you want a job or a career?”

The answer was a career. “I wanted something I could retire from,” Dupre says.

 

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