Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the COO Alliance and brought to

you by its founder, Cameron Herald.

In the second-in-command podcast,

we talked to top COOs who share the insights,

strategies and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

And now here's your host, Cameron Herald.

Our guest today is Chris Coombs, the CEO of Innovator Industrial Services.

Chris supports the company mission by transforming innovators vision into

actionable steps that create traction towards realizing their vision.

Chris also serves as the technical director offering extensive knowledge of innovators service lines

while ensuring that work done on each project meets and exceeds regulatory compliance for both innovator and their customers.

In 2006, Chris began his career after graduating from a technical college in Newfoundland.

Newfoundland is a province up in Canada.

Chris worked in the Alberta in the oil and gas industry, advanced into engineering and designing

engineered pressure enclosures and obtaining his professional technologist designation

through ASET.

Chris later transferred to New Brunswick

working as an operations manager, gaining experience on various service lines in the

specialty maintenance industry. After two years his role as an operations manager

ended when the company closed.

Chris returned to Edmonton where he eventually received the call to perform work in his home province of Newfoundland.

This call would be the start of a career at Innovator where he's continued to grow himself and the company for eight years.

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