{"id":31407,"date":"2017-01-12T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T16:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=31407"},"modified":"2017-01-16T11:47:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:47:01","slug":"hans-harman-02-president-momentum-earthworks-earns-entrepreneur-year-local-chamber-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/hans-harman-02-president-momentum-earthworks-earns-entrepreneur-year-local-chamber-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Harman &#8217;02, president of Momentum Earthworks, earns Entrepreneur of the Year from local chamber of commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no secret sauce\u201d to owning a successful business, says <strong>Hans Harman \u201902<\/strong>. \u201cJust surrounding yourself with the right people, working hard and getting your hands dirty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harman, president of Momentum Earthworks, was honored as Entrepreneur of the Year at the Jan. 4 Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Receiving recognition like this is exciting and humbling because there are so many great businesses and great business people in the Harrisonburg\/Rockingham communities,\u201d Harman said. \u201cHaving peers and the community acknowledge the hard work of building a company is reassuring that we have a great team which continues to tackle new challenges and perform at a high level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The award has two criteria: entrepreneurial success and community involvement, or \u201cgiving back,\u201d said Frank Tamberrino, chamber president. &#8220;Hans has now established a track record of sensing a business opportunity, taking a risk and making it pay off. The benefits include a larger payroll, which means more local jobs created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tamberrino added that Harman \u201cmakes his presence known in the community by being active in the Association of General Contractors, the chamber of commerce and downtown revitalization efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Momentum Earthworks, based in Harrisonburg, Virginia, does $8 million a year in annual business and employs 50 people. Harman initially purchased Quality Excavating in 2011, when it had seven employees and drew just $1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>A Harrisonburg native, Harman earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in business administration at Eastern Mennonite University. He is the son of <strong>Carl Harman \u201967<\/strong> and <strong>Sharon Bowers \u201871<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Before opening Momentum Earthworks in 2011, he worked in real estate development as a principal with Velocity Property Group and managed projects for Harman Construction, his father\u2019s company.<\/p>\n<p>Other honorees included Jack Broaddus, president and CEO of Sunnyside Communities, Business Person of the Year; Jill McGlaughlin, Community Champion; and Willard and Sonia Knicely of West-Rock Dairy, Farm Family Stewardship Award winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no secret sauce\u201d to owning a successful business, says Hans Harman \u201902. \u201cJust surrounding yourself with the right people, working hard and getting your hands dirty.\u201d Harman, president of <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/hans-harman-02-president-momentum-earthworks-earns-entrepreneur-year-local-chamber-commerce\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Hans Harman &#8217;02, president of Momentum Earthworks, earns Entrepreneur of the Year from local chamber of commerce<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,17562],"tags":[],"feature":[17241],"class_list":["post-31407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-digest","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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