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Sexton Roofing & Siding Thrives Under New, ‘Extreme’ Ownership
BY JOSEPH BEDNAR
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After almost 40 years operating the small roofing company that bears his name, Everett Sexton was looking to retire.
At the same time, Sasha and Tim Wilde, who had spent about a
decade as project managers in the corpo- rate world, were looking for a new, entre- preneurial challenge.
They found it in roofing, acquiring Sex- ton Roofing & Siding from its founder a little over a year ago.
“We did large-scale pharmaceutical construction projects, and we decided, after 10-plus years in that career, that we wanted to break out and do something on our own,” Sasha, now president of the company, explained. “A couple of friends
“People will come to us for siding, windows, or they want to do their roof and their siding, or their roof and their gutters. So we like being able to be that one-stop shop for them so that they don’t have to go and deal with multiple contractors to try to get a project done.”
of ours bought a business in 2022, and that’s when we learned about buying busi- nesses. So I started doing all the research, doing analysis, reading books, listening
to podcasts, just doing everything I could to get educated on the subject of buying businesses.”
The Wildes were living in New Hamp- shire at the time and wanted to stay in New England, and relocated to Western Mass. to buy Sexton, which is headquar- tered in West Hatfield.
“Everett Sexton founded it in 1985 and just kind of slowly built his business over the years,” Sasha noted. “The amount of work that he did was very impressive. He
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