Tim Gallagher, owner and founder of New Jersey-based Enviroprobe Service Inc., made his way into the drilling industry about 20 years ago. He’s expanded the environmental monitoring company to include a vaster array of geophysical services over the years, but drilling for samples remains the core offering. His ascent in the drilling industry wasn’t always the plan. He graduated with a finance degree and went to work for a bank in the mid ’90s, but when that industry started laying off he decided to make a change. Now that he’s brought the business up, he’s applying his cautiously optimistic tactics to stimulate growth without compromising longevity.
Q. What do you do and what keeps you coming back every day?