Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 9, 2005

Norm Chambers – Nci Building Systems Inc (ncs)

NORM CHAMBERS joined NCI Building Systems, Inc., as President and Chief Operating Officer in April 2004, having served on the Board of Directors as an independent Director since June 2003. Prior to joining NCI, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Comfort Systems USA, a leading national mechanical contracting company. Mr. Chambers spent over 25 years in the engineering and construction industry. During that period, he worked on and successfully led project teams, constructing and installing oil and gas production facilities in the US, Europe and Asia. Following a three-year period leading the estimating and bidding activities of Sub Sea International, a subsidiary of Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company (ODECO), Mr. Chambers was recruited in 1985 to be President of the Taylor Diving Company, a Halliburton Company subsidiary. After expanding the global operations, he was promoted in 1992 to Managing Director of Brown & Root Energy Services, a $1 billion facilities engineering and construction Halliburton subsidiary. In 1996, he was promoted to lead one of Halliburton's five divisions as President of Halliburton Energy Development, reporting to the then Chairman, President and CEO, Dick Cheney. Mr. Chambers left Halliburton in 2000 to become CEO of Petrocosm, an Internet energy industry procurement startup founded by Chevron Texaco and Crosspoint Venture Partners. In 2001, he joined Capstone as President of the distributed power generation. He is a graduate of Springfield College and earned an MBA at Boston College. Mr. Chambers is the past Chairman of the Scotland Chapter of Young Presidents' Organization. Profile
TWST: Can we start off with an overview of NCI and how you see the

company today?

Mr. Chambers: NCI is a manufacturer of metal components and buildings in

the non-residential construction