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Paquet joins Exterior Designs as executive vice president

Nicholas Paquet

Manchester, NH Nicholas Paquet has joined Exterior Designs as executive vice president. Paquet will maintain daily oversight and management of the company’s sales and operations. 

Paquet will ensure Exterior Designs continues to maintain communication with its customers and continues to provide project satisfaction.

Paquet grew up within the construction industry under the guidance of his father who owned his own company. After high school, Paquet began a career in construction working within the exterior panel and drywall industries. He completed his education at Southern New Hampshire University while working full time through college as a foreman and project manager.

Paquet continued working with metal panel and commercial siding industry, eventually moving into hotel development construction from New York to South Carolina, and everywhere in-between. In 2011, he took his knowledge and years of management skills to a U.S. manufacturing operation for a Canadian based truss and wall panel company where he helped them excel from 9 to 52 employees and a near 7x increase in revenue. 

Paquet will assume responsibility from Bob Tupper who will continue to oversee project directly and ensure that Exterior Designs continues to deliver on its reputation for excellence on every project.

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