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That’s where Jack Abiusi and Mike Houvardas, two of the Winnipeg firm’s founding partners, met when they were teenagers. The sons of Italian and Greek immigrants, respectively, Abiusi and Houvardas bonded over, among other things, their shared interests in math and science. At the time, they didn’t imagine they would both become mechanical engineers, much less they would run an engineering firm together.
But more than 45 years later, that’s exactly the case. When they started Tower with two colleagues in 1997, Abiusi remembers someone suggesting it would be great if the company was like a children’s soccer team: different people coming together to achieve a common goal. “I can’t remember which partner said that, but I loved that idea,” Abiusi says.
“We’re just a bunch of immigrant kids from the West End that wanted to have a business ...
We came from all different cultures and diverse backgrounds and somehow our common goal brought us together.” That goal was to create a business specia.
