As the owner and president of K & J Interiors, Inc.; KJ Realty Trust Corporation and Court Street Trust Corporation; Mountain View Development, and Craffey & Co. Builders Inc., Kevin Craffey has garnered significant experience in creating the kinds of opportunities he once took as a young apprentice carpenter. Craffey & Co. alone has done business in 45 states, specializing in mall renovation and additions, as well as the development of retail and "big box" construction projects, while K& J Interiors has become well-known in Massachusetts as the top company in the field of carpentry subcontrators. Thanks to Kevin Craffey's leadership, more than 500 individuals have been given the chance to learn the trade, often within the welcoming arms of local unions.
Kevin Craffey, who comes from a Boston family with a history of excellence in carpentry and dedication to unions, began his own career as an apprentice at Cape Cod Lathing and Plastering, Inc., in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. While serving the company for five years, eventually rising to the position of foreman, he also pursued his journeyman certificate and carpentry journeyman certificate, educational opportunities offered by the Massachusetts Carpenters Training Center and Associated General Contractors of America, respectively. After leaving Cape Cod Lathing to serve as a superintendent and carpenter steward at Quinn Construction in Brockton, Massachusetts, Kevin Craffey also sought out instruction in business administration at the Brockton, Massachusetts-based Massasoit Community College, information he later invested in his own business as he formed his first company, K & J Interiors, in 1988.
In the quarter century since he first followed the entrepreneurial spirit and became a business owner, Kevin Craffey has empowered hundreds of employees to follow in his footsteps. Moreover, his other enterprises have provided unique opportunities to students of the hospitality industry; through Mountain View Development, a company he founded to restore a 200-room hotel in New Hampshire's White Mountains, he worked with the Town of Whitefield to create an internship program that received significant praise from education leaders across the country. Kevin Craffey has succeeded where other entrepreneurs have failed through the recognition of a key business truism: industry succeeds when it empowers employees to seek their own success.
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