Andy Norman

After graduating from Florida State University in 1997, Andy Norman had the opportunity to work for a small business with the opportunity for ownership in the near future. Andy grew up in the equipment manufacturing business, spending his summers working in a manufacturing shop learning the ropes of metal fabrication. This opportunity to work and potentially own a small fabrication facility specializing in industrial construction was an opportunity he dropped law school to pursue.

Over the next four years, Norman learned and honed his craft in specialty fabrication and construction for the phosphate and power industry. He attended a local college for two years after FSU to learn drafting and design.

Norman rebranded the company in 2002 as GMF Construction, LLC, as a tribute to his father’s manufacturing company. The newly branded company changed its focus towards commercial and civil infrastructure construction.

This move towards new markets proved successful as GMF Construction moved from a small local contractor to a regional specialist with clients throughout the Southeast. Over the next decade, GMF Construction completed several high-profile projects as both a general contractor and contract structures specialist. Those projects include:

• Harry Potter at Islands of Adventure Universal Studios - Orlando, Florida
• Tampa Bay Times Forum Expansion - Tampa, Florida
• Ortega River Bridge Rehabilitation - Jacksonville, Florida
• Jefferson Pump Station Lake Pontchartrain Levy Rebuild - New Orleans, Louisiana
• Harris County Courthouse - Houston, Texas
• Gilmerton Bridge Lift Span - Chesapeake, Virginia
• Florida Turnpike Lake Worth Toll Plaza - Lake Worth, Florida

Norman also founded, co-founded and/or acquired an additional five companies over the course of his career. Those companies represent the staffing, agriculture, engineering and real estate industries.

• StaffBuildersHR is a full-service Staffing Firm serving professional, clerical, industrial, IT, skilled trades and general labor arenas. StaffBuildersHR services clients throughout Florida with a network of independent agents and an inventory of over 4,000 employees and markets to over a million candidates through online network partners. StaffBuildersHR is ranked as a top 25 staffing firm in the Tampa Bay area by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. StaffBuildersHR has recently contracted to staff all the private label fulfillment centers for CVS pharmacies throughout the United States.
• Gulf Coast Engineering is a new branding to the recently acquired Custom Drafting and Design (CDD). Founded over 40 years ago in Orlando, Florida, CDD has a global client base and led the innovation of building information modeling in the state of Florida. GCE will now incorporate the BIM expertise and software of CDD with professional engineering services, Level 2&3 NDT testing, NACE and AWS inspection, and destructive testing.
• Norman Investments | Munn Park Properties currently hold and manage over 250,000 square feet of office, retail, manufacturing and warehouse space.
• Norman Brothers Cattle Company is an agriculture and land management company servicing the cattle, timber, citrus, bio-mass and real estate industries. NBCC, in a joint venture with H&W Cattle Company, land and property tax manage nearly $70 million of assets for clients in Florida and Georgia.

Over the past 14 years, Norman has grown a small industrial construction and fabrication firm of six employees to a network of companies with over 300 full-time employees and clients throughout the United States. Norman is a licensed general contractor in Florida, Texas and Louisiana.

Norman sits on the National Board of Directors for Seminole Boosters and is an ordained elder.

Norman and his wife Sheryl met at Florida State University. They reside in Lakeland, Florida with their four children, Libby, Maggy, Stuart and Charley.