When Leonard Monfredo joined E.M. Duggan in 2009, the country was in the midst of the Great Recession. He sold his general contracting business to his partner and moved from New York to work at the Canton, Mass.-based mechanical contracting firm run by his father-in-law Vincent Petroni. The company was doing about $70 million to $80 million in revenues.
A year later, company revenues plunged to $36 million.