Chief Executive, CW Driver Cos.

The company just completed reconstruction of its $38 million Menifee Valley Middle School project and a $41 million expansion of Granada Hills Charter School. It’s also breaking ground on a mixed-use multifamily development in Temple City and is underway on a new K-8 school in Irvine. The company recently celebrated its 103rd year as a continually operating construction firm. Roberts’ first job as a teenager in 1970 was alongside his father, a supervisor at C.W. Driver. He formally joined the company four years later. Roberts obtained an ownership stake in the company in 1981 and assumed full ownership in 1987.

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