Drew Cameron

From his early days of working in his family’s HVAC business in Philadelphia, PA, Drew was drawn to the idea of positively impacting people’s lives and businesses.

For 19 years, he worked in every facet of the company – from installer to warehouse manager and eventually to the company general manager. He then helped broker a very lucrative sale of John H. Cameron and Sons to a local utility company.

After the sale in 1996, he used his skills to help a wholesale energy company called Conectiv Energy hire, train, and coach their residential sales team. Two years later, he joined Service Experts to troubleshoot struggling service centers and help improve their marketing, sales, and profitability.

Positive Impact Means Helping Others

Helping is the keyword here. Drew’s focus remained lasered in on teaching, educating, and mentoring HVAC contractors nationwide with other organizations like Excellence Alliance, National Comfort Institute, and Energy Design Systems. The latter company was a software-based sales venture which Drew and a partner bought out in 2014 and remains focused on helping contractors increase residential in-home sales and profits.

In addition, in 1999, he founded another company, Flow Odyssey (formerly HVAC Sellutions), to help contractors with their marketing, advertising, sales, and selling, as well as sales management, recruiting, hiring, training, and more.

When you add all this up, the sum of Drew Cameron’s life has always been about service. He has said any number of times – whether during a consulting gig or on the telephone with contractors, the HVAC Industry is a service industry first. It is not a commodity that can be bought and sold based on a cheap price.

Servant Leader Mindset

Drew says he believes contractors must understand how they serve people and that HVAC is about connecting with homeowners and genuinely wanting to solve their comfort and efficiency problems. He believes contractors provide a substantial value in the design, installation, and maintenance of systems that deliver comfort, performance, health, safety, energy savings, reliability, longevity, and value that customers desire and deserve.

He also believes that technology for system testing, airflow measurement, diagnosing problems, and finding solutions is essential to the future of this industry and works hard to spread the word and teach contractors how best to use all of it.

In addition to his consulting work, Drew is also an accomplished writer and contributes articles to several of the HVAC Industry trade magazines. He is a regular speaker and lecturer for organizations like EGIA, the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA), and NCI.

Community Give-Back

Furthermore, Drew Cameron gives his time to several charitable organizations. He is a leader who has impacted not only the lives of contractors across the U.S., but the success and growth of their businesses.

For these and many more reasons, the High-Performance HVAC Today magazine team welcomes Drew Cameron to the 2023 Class of HVAC Industry Influencers.

Congratulations to Nancy, Jim, and Drew. To see other members of the HVAC Influencers list, visit HVACToday.com and search for
“influencers.”