Business View Magazine | August 2022

57 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 8 Craig, CO in 1996. That’s where Travas picked up his own love of concrete. He recalls, “I worked for my dad at Northwest when I was a kid, running the loader and greasing the plant, just simple maintenance things.” Life changes eventually brought Randy to Summit County where he began working as sales manager for a local ready-mix company. Travas joined him there, where he took on the job as IT manager. “I came up and through the growth and development of a family-owned business, I ended up an operations manager for them,” he explains. “I oversaw half of the operations, but everything related to the ready-mix division.” BRENNER MATER I ALS That business eventually ended up selling to a large, publicly-traded conglomerate. The change in ownership highlighted the importance of family-run companies for Travas. He acknowledges, “Being publicly traded, they had a very different approach to business management, and, in my opinion, the way they treat people. It became a difficult transition for me, coming from only family-owned businesses. I had different ideals than they had.” Travas and Randy both quit the company, and together with Travas’s wife, Alaina, they started Brenner Materials. “The conglomerate was the only supplier for a couple years up here and