Background of Owner, Guy Chaifetz
I grew up in West Palm Beach, FL. My father had a camera repair shop and I used to work on cameras that were in the “scrap yard”, beyond practical repair but worth their weight for used parts, like an auto scrap yard. I was learning how to repair cameras before I was ten. In high school I scored in the 99% for mechanical aptitude. This skillset landed me a scholarship to Southern Methodist University in Dallas where I majored in Engineering (for a year). I switched over to the business school my second year. I’m proud to say that off all the classes I ever took I never skipped a single accounting class in two semesters. This served me well in business my entire life.
I went to work for my parents in 1974 and just two short years later, my father passed away. At twenty-four I took over the reins of a repair shop that had seven technicians and three support staff which did $270,000 in gross sales in 1976. So I was running a very successful entity which I knew very little about. I did the best I could not having the seventeen years of knowledge that was lost when my father passed. I leaned a lot about supply chains, quality control and public relations. I had the dubious honor of having to look a customer in the eye when he brought his camera back for a re-repair because the repair had failed and he lost his entire vacation photos.
The knowledge I gleaned running the repair shop for ten years paved the way for my success with my video editing company which I started in 1986. Once it got going, it became an industry leader bringing the latest technology to the public. Here I learned video editing from the ground up. Those were the days of tape based editing which required a certain discipline and patience because it was so time consuming, especially compared to editing on computers today.
This new endeavor I call Supski takes advantage of all the skills I’ve learned over forty years and the new skills I’ve learned in the past ten, becoming an inventor of a water sport product and everything that goes along with that. I am looking forward to Supski's future and the rewards it will brings for me and all those that beome involved with it as it grows.
I grew up in West Palm Beach, FL. My father had a camera repair shop and I used to work on cameras that were in the “scrap yard”, beyond practical repair but worth their weight for used parts, like an auto scrap yard. I was learning how to repair cameras before I was ten. In high school I scored in the 99% for mechanical aptitude. This skillset landed me a scholarship to Southern Methodist University in Dallas where I majored in Engineering (for a year). I switched over to the business school my second year. I’m proud to say that off all the classes I ever took I never skipped a single accounting class in two semesters. This served me well in business my entire life.
I went to work for my parents in 1974 and just two short years later, my father passed away. At twenty-four I took over the reins of a repair shop that had seven technicians and three support staff which did $270,000 in gross sales in 1976. So I was running a very successful entity which I knew very little about. I did the best I could not having the seventeen years of knowledge that was lost when my father passed. I leaned a lot about supply chains, quality control and public relations. I had the dubious honor of having to look a customer in the eye when he brought his camera back for a re-repair because the repair had failed and he lost his entire vacation photos.
The knowledge I gleaned running the repair shop for ten years paved the way for my success with my video editing company which I started in 1986. Once it got going, it became an industry leader bringing the latest technology to the public. Here I learned video editing from the ground up. Those were the days of tape based editing which required a certain discipline and patience because it was so time consuming, especially compared to editing on computers today.
This new endeavor I call Supski takes advantage of all the skills I’ve learned over forty years and the new skills I’ve learned in the past ten, becoming an inventor of a water sport product and everything that goes along with that. I am looking forward to Supski's future and the rewards it will brings for me and all those that beome involved with it as it grows.