Hudson Spotlight: Dean Hudson

Employee Name: Dean Hudson

Role at Company: Owner/President

Dean Hudson is the owner and operator of Hudson Plumbing. He founded the company alongside his wife, Tish Hudson, out of their garage in Paragon, Indiana. What started as one guy out of his truck has grown into a 17-person team and an 8-truck operation. He can be reached via email at dean@trustyourplumber.com.

How and when did you start plumbing?

Donald Kivett, my boss, taught me in 1987

Where is your favorite place to eat?

Bonefish Bar & Grill in Greenwood

What is most crucial to you in a business?

To always be honest…even if it hurts

What’s the weirdest fact you know?

That one of my employees drinks a gallon of milk a day!

What do you like to do outside of work?

Everything outdoors

If you could have an unlimited supply of one thing, what would it be?

Wisdom

What is your proudest professional accomplishment?

That I made it through the ‘08 crash

What is your proudest personal accomplishment?

To have picked the right girl to chase in high school–34 years strong!

What is one thing you’d like your employees to know?

“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

Tell me what’s next for the company that you’re the most excited about?

All I can say is I am very excited about what’s coming next for the company…just wait and see!