{"id":1994,"date":"2017-01-24T23:18:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universalmetro.net\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2018-05-16T23:46:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T23:46:27","slug":"winners-of-2017-young-professional-award-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/2017\/01\/winners-of-2017-young-professional-award-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of 2017 Young Professional Award Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2178\" src=\"http:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/focus-leader-grant-petruzzelli-kemp-harr-01-small-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/focus-leader-grant-petruzzelli-kemp-harr-01-small-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/focus-leader-grant-petruzzelli-kemp-harr-01-small-350x467.png 350w, https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/focus-leader-grant-petruzzelli-kemp-harr-01-small.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><strong>Universal Metro&#8217;s Director of Sales and Marketing, Grant Petruzzelli, receives an award recognizing Young Professionals under 40 in the floor covering industry. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chattanooga, TN, January 24, 2017 \u2014 Floor Focus is pleased to announce the winners of its 2017 Young Professional Award, which, this year, focused on the retailer\/contractor segment.<\/p>\n<p>The award honors professionals, under the age of 40, who have proven themselves to be true leaders and help drive the industry forward.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates must be nominated, and this year\u2019s winners were announced at a cocktail event at Surfaces.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Judges for the 2017 competition were Ralph Boe, president of ArrowStar and past president of Beaulieu Group, and Paul Friederichsen, flooring industry marketing consultant, creative director and marketing strategist.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s winners are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Justin Atcheson, president of Builders Floor Covering and Tile;<\/p>\n<p>Steavie Cain, managing principal of Quality Service Floor Covering;<\/p>\n<p>David DeGol Jr., division manager of DeGol Carpet;<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Gibson, store manager of Lima Carpet Corporation;<\/p>\n<p>Katie Krause, senior interior designer at H.J. Martin and Son;<\/p>\n<p>Garrett Ulfig of Mastercraft Flooring;<\/p>\n<p>Sage Parrish of Quality Floor Coverings;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grant Petruzzelli, Director of Sales and Marketing at Universal Metro;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jared Satler, owner of Dick\u2019s Carpet One &amp; Auburn Carpet One; and<\/p>\n<p>David Webb, store manager at Dalton Carpet One. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.floordaily.net\/floorfocus\/winners-of-2017-young-professional-award-announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Metro&#8217;s Director of Sales and Marketing, Grant Petruzzelli, receives an award recognizing Young Professionals under 40 in the floor covering &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,220,212],"tags":[209,211,208,201,206,207,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalmetro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}