Paul J. Sarvadi

Paul J. Sarvadi

Mr. Sarvadi, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Administaff and its subsidiaries, is a Class II director and has been a director since the Company’s inception in 1986. He was elected Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer on August 21, 2003. Before being elected Chairman of the Board, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since 1989. Prior to that, he served as Vice President and Treasurer of the Company from its inception in 1986 until April 1987, and then as Vice President from April 1987 until 1989. He attended Rice University and the University of Houston prior to starting and operating several small companies. Mr. Sarvadi has served as President of NAPEO and was a member of its Board of Directors for five years. He also served as President of the Texas Chapter of the NAPEO for three of the first four years of its existence. Mr. Sarvadi serves on the Board of Trustees of the DePelchin Children’s Center in Houston. In 1995, Mr. Sarvadi was selected as Houston’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for service industries and in 2001, he was selected as the 2001 National Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for service industries.
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This is a special economic report from a unique small business CEO, Paul Sarvadi, who joins Jim Blasigname to talk about his thoughts on the recovery, the future of business and the threats from government policy on the recovery.
As the sponsor of the only PGA that celebrates small business and golf, Paul Sarvadi talks with Jim Blasingame about his tournament, the Administaff Small Business Classic, including how it began and how it is going.
The minimum wage is going to be increased, but hopefully with some small business benefits included, and Paul talks with Jim about some of those issues that will be good for small business. They go on to talk about the negative impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on public companies and those that want to become public.