OpsLens Deck of 52 Most Wanted Post 9/11 Frontline Leaders
In 2018, as a spin-off and salute to the original 2003 deck of 52 Most Wanted playing cards, let’s honor post 9/11 frontline leaders here at home. Once a week, for 52 weeks this year, OpsLens will post a card highlighting one of the 52 Most Wanted Post 9/11 Frontline Leaders. You’ll learn the top facts about their business or organization, as well as why they made the list, which comes down to impact, scalability, health, and unique value proposition.
I encourage you to look for these weekly updates, share the card with your network, and support or buy the products and services they offer. See the 52 Most Wanted Post 9/11 Frontline Leaders launch story here.
Jack of Spades | Rhumbix
Have you ever worked with someone who talked about a problem with an attitude that can only be described as solution driven? They do not bemoan and complain, rather their work and conversation has a persistent resolve. I sensed this characteristic immediately when speaking with Zach Scheel, cofounder of Rhumbix. I can only imagine the epiphany that unfolded over beers in Chile, when Zach and his cofounder Drew DeWalt discussed challenges they were facing with data collection and productivity while they were working together on a large infrastructure project in a copper mine in that country. Bound as brothers from their shared service in the U.S. Navy, the interchange between these two friends from Stanford Business School circled back around to their time in the military, and the Blue Force tracking tool. Inspiration struck—and led them to create a mobile tool that helps workers build smarter and safer.
Rhumbix has transformed a market in desperate need of this type of innovation, since construction—the second-largest industry in the world ($10.5T)—is also the least-digitized industry. In four short years they’ve raised over $20M in financing from some of the best firms in Silicon Valley to bring to market a product now used by more than a third of the top 20 builders in the United States. Rhumbix modernizes construction operations, helping builders go paperless in the field and improving how they measure and manage labor productivity. Their Field Intelligence Platform™ is a cloud-based mobile workforce management solution that collects and digitizes data from previously paper-based workflows. This ensures all project stakeholders have the best data, when they need it, to make better decisions and draw actionable insights, setting a standard for the “digital age” foreman.
Ranked by Forbes as one of the top ten veteran startup companies in the country, the unsung accolade is Rhumbix’s commitment to building tools that empower the blue-collar workforce.
Rhumbix is a frontline leader that should be on your list of most wanted businesses to support in 2018.
Frontline Leader (Founder(s)): Zach Scheel and Drew DeWalt.
Name of Company/Organization: Rhumbix, founded 2014.
Location: San Francisco, California.
Post 9/11 Service Connection: U.S. Navy. Zach was a Seabee/Civil Engineer Officer, and Drew was a Nuclear Submarine Officer.
Tours of Duty: Zach deployed to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, and Drew was homeported in Pearl Harbor, HI, where he deployed on several WESTPAC tours.
One sentence tagline & mission statement: Rhumbix modernizes construction field operations, helping builders go paperless in the field and improving how they measure and manage labor productivity to be more profitable.
Company / organization website: https://www.rhumbix.com/
