Mark Richert

Mark grew up in south St. Louis, the middle of three children. After high school, he attended the University of Missouri, St. Louis for about 2 months before returning to work at Henges Interiors where he had worked all summer. He completed his carpentry apprenticeship in 1980, blew out a knee playing soccer, moved indoors to do a little job costing and never left. When his manager quit, 20-year-old Mark began overseeing the men he had apprenticed under. He did that for four years before moving into sales, then took a position with Alberici as Vice President Business Development in Automotive Marketing. When his daughter was born, about 5 years later, he accepted an offer from Sacs Electric to spend more time with her. A few more transitions later, Mark was working at The Lawrence Group and was asked if he would be interested in running Color Art Construction (formerly Commercial Installation and Construction) and the rest, as they say, is history.