Will Horner (center) of
Canco ClimateCare
took home the 2023
High-Performance
Sales Excellence Award.

Recognition Awards

In addition, NCI recognizes individuals for their contributions toward the advancement of the high-performance approach to HVAC contracting. These awards and this year’s winners include the following:

This year's preferred partner award presented to Daikin during Summit 2023
AJ Simmons (second from left)
and Jimmie Vasquez (second
from right) represented
Daikin Comfort Technologies, recipients of NCI’s Preferred Partner Award.
  • David Debien Award for Technical Excellence – Cliff Dennis, Vassers Service of Richmond, VA
  • John Garofalo Implementation Excellence Award – Getzschman Heating, Fremont, NE
  • Scott Johnson Training Excellence Award – Tom Hearn, Hearn Plumbing and Heating, Madison, OH
  • High Performance Sales Excellence Award – Will Horner, Canco ClimateCare, New Market, Ontario, Canada
  • Preferred Partners Award — Daikin Comfort Technologies
  • The Chairman’s Award — Greg Wallace, Progressive Heating, Cooling, and Plumbing, Noonan, GA

In addition, NCI introduced two new awards during the 2023 Summit:

Rob Falke Servant Leadership Award

The 2023 NCI Chairman’s Award recognition went to Greg Wallace (center) of Progressive Heating,
Cooling, and Plumbing.

This new award is named for NCI President Rob Falke who passed away in 2022. Rob represented the epitome of service to others and the criteria for this recognition is based on how Rob lived his life as a servant leader:

  • Always ready to help others and encourage them to succeed
  • Serves the people he manages or leads with humility and grace
  • Puts others ahead of self in terms of giving credit and praising achievement
  • Fosters leadership in others.
Summit 2023 introduced the Rob Falke Servant Leader Award
Robin Falke (second from left)
joined David Richardson and Dominick Guarino in presenting
the inaugural Rob Falke
Servant Leadership Award
in honor of her late husband,
NCI President Rob Falke. The
winner was Michael Greany
of Aire Rite Air Conditioning
and Refrigeration.

“I’ve known our winner for many years, in fact he has been a force of change at every Summit he has attended since 2015,” said Dominick Guarino.

“Not only does he continually attend every class NCI offers in his area, he usually drags five or six people along with him. He is a great example for his fellow employees to follow, and would literally give the shirt off his back to help others, which he actually did at a Summit several years ago.”

The inaugural recipient of this award is Michael Greany of Aire Rite Air Conditioning & Refrigeration, Corona, CA.

Dominick Guarino (left) and David
Richardson (right) present the
inaugural Spirit of Independence
Award to Joseph Storey and
Joseph Mitchell of Austin Energy
who accepted the award on behalf
of winner Tom Turner.

Spirit of Excellence Award

This addition to the NCI recognition program is to honor those individuals who dedicate a great part of their professional careers to help raise the bar in the HVAC Industry.

According to Dominick Guarino, the inaugural winner of this award, “has been living and breathing high-performance for many years, even before NCI started using this term.

“He doesn’t own an HVAC company, nor does he work for one. Instead he has been working for a utility company for decades to help drive high-performance among the contractors in the community he serves.”

The first recipient of this award is Tom Turner of Austin Energy, Austin, TX.

Congratulations to all the winners and to all the attendees who help make Summit great every year.

Stay Tuned for Summit 2024

Mark your calendars for September 10-13, 2024. Summit moves to Asheville, NC in September.
We will have more information on pricing and registration in the very near future at gotosummit.com.

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