How did a molecular biologist/geneticist and a booking agent for rock bands end up heading one of the largest mechanical contractors in the Northwest?
Dean Allen, chief executive officer of Seattle-based McKinstry Co., and David Allen, the company’s executive vice president, started out as most kids whose parents own their own business — working at McKinstry Co. on weekends and summer breaks digging ditches and helping the plumbers. And while college gave them different careers, they both ended up at the company their father, George Allen, founded in 1960 with partner Merrill McKinstry. When George Allen died in 2004, the brothers and President Doug Moore, P.E., took over running the business.