Friday, January 30, 2009
Profile: Kelly Lawrence, General Manager Chaffey Homes
Background: Kelly Lawrence grew up in a slice of the Wild West: Buffalo, Wyo. Although he loved the rugged backdrop of his childhood home, the beaches of Southern California beckoned when he earned an academic scholarship to the University of San Diego.
After graduating in 1990, Lawrence took a job with First Interstate Bank of California as a credit analyst at the height of the savings and loan debacle. Through a series of random connections, he secured a job in 1995 with a developer in the Saudi Arabian seaport town of Jeddah.
"It was like the Old West of capitalism," Lawrence said.
He and his bride, Karen, loved their four years in Jeddah, but returned to rural Wyoming and later moved with their growing family to the Phoenix area, where Lawrence worked with Pulte Homes. Last year, he was recruited by Seattle-based Chaffey Homes to direct the home builder's expansion into Arizona.
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