Commercial Painting Industry Association

General information

The year is 2008, in a highly contested race for a national board seat in the PDCA, Steve Hester and Aaron Moore faced off in what turned out to be an unlikely introduction for a pair of Chicago based painting contractors. Steve, a second generation Union painting contractor and Aaron, a founder of Precision Painting immediately connected over their Finance backgrounds.

Fast forward 10 years and the 2 have become great friends and colleagues. Over a dinner in spring of 2016, the two talked about the things that were working for their individual businesses and the discussion lead to the lack of resources for commercial painting contractors (especially when they reached a certain size). Steve spoke of his success in a one-off peer group and Young Presidents Organization and Aaron echoed the sentiment with his involvement with Entrepreneurs Organization and the PDCA Commercial Forum. The idea for the Commercial Painting Industry Association was born.

The characteristics these organizations shared that made them so valuable to the world would become the Core Values of the CPIA.