Dawn Albright
Dawn Albright is co-owner of C + D Industry, a custom wood and metal fabrication company.
C + D Industry designs and manufactures unique furniture for indoors and out including their patented Garden/ Cooler/Fire Table. They have created a unique buying experience allowing for customizations so clients can get what they really love. Their current mission is to continue to expand and grow their brand while reaching into the community to introduce trades to youth. Dawn is particularly passionate about empowering and instilling confidence by teaching skills like woodworking, welding and entrepreneurship to girls.
Dawn started her journey to entrepreneurship at a young age. She was practical but creative and never missed an opportunity to help build or fix something along side her dad. Her mom also instilled in her from a young age that the best way to know that something will get done, is to make sure you know how to do it yourself. Her first job out of high school was driving a fork lift at the local plant in the summer between college semesters. Dawn moved to Arizona after college and enjoyed a rewarding career in physical therapy, including management, for twenty years. Never ceasing to be creative, in her spare time she designed a product based on her love of gardening that has now become the flagship item of C + D Industry. Dawn is the lead woodworker and manages operations of C + D and her husband, Chase, oversees the metal fabrication and the long term vision of their company. Combining her creative passion with her desire to help her community has provided Dawn with the opportunity to help others discover what might be available to them on the other side of traditional education models and ‘typical’ gender roles in the workforce.
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Gia Venturi
Gia Venturi is the principal interior designer and business owner of Gia Venturi Interiors. With over 20 years of diverse design experience, Gia brings expertise to high-end custom home design, large-scale remodels and commercial projects that include office design, medical and dental, apartment clubhouses and models, and restaurant design.
Gia graduated with honors from Scottsdale Community College, Interior Design Program. Gia had the exciting fortune to appear on HGTV Designers’ Challenge in October of 2006. She has done several local television segments on Good Morning Arizona Channel 3, talking about design trends. Gia was recognized by The Arizona Business Journal, as a Winner of the – Superstars in Real Estate – Interior Design category, 2005.
She enjoys taking on new design challenges. Multifamily projects are a specialty. Collaboration with all of the key people in a project — owner, architect, general contractor and management companies — to bring about the best design outcome is something she proudly provides. Gia has discovered that listening and great communication is the secret ingredient to a smooth and interesting project.
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