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Bebo, Gowan join Pavement Board

Jim Bebo, president of ACI Asphalt Contractors, and Rachel Gowan, president of Vern's Parking Lot Maintenance, are the newest contractors to be named to the Pavement Advisory Board.

They succeed Gerry Kesselring, Contract Sweepers & Equipment, Dayton, OH; and Dennis McCard, Raleigh Paving, Raleigh, NC.

Bebo, who began sealcoating part-time in college, started ACI, Maple Grove, MN, as a general contracting firm in 1992. In 1995 ACI acquired one of its subcontractors, merged the two companies, and in 1999 became a full-service pavement maintenance firm. Since then ACI has grown from $1 million to more than $7 million in sales, employs 40 people, and offers paving and patching, sealcoating, cracksealing, and design-build services. The company outsources striping, concrete, and curb-and-gutter work and also offers a program to assist clients in setting up pavement management plans.

"I don't think we would have been as successful as we've been if we hadn't been exposed to the people and programs of National Pavement Expo," Bebo says. "My staff and I have benefitted greatly from the classes and from the relationships we've developed at the show."

Rachel Gowan, incoming president of North American Power Sweeping Association (naPSa), became sole owner of Vern's Parking Lot Maintenance, Grand Forks, ND, from her father, Vern, in 1997. Gowan and her father sold what at the time was the state's third-largest garbage hauling and recycling business and kept her affiliated sweeping business.