2008 40 Under Forty: Rud Mason
Rud Mason
Age: 37
Title: President
Company: Princeton Scapes
Company location: Sterling
Residence: Princeton
Career highlights:
I started landscaping as a high school student. I loved it and as I moved on to college I felt like I could make a business out of it. With that, Princeton Scapes was started. For 10 years our company was very small. About seven years ago I felt stuck and made the decision to grow. Since then we have grown about 800 percent. But what I am most proud of is the group of professional people who now make up Princeton Scapes. They are licensed, certified, knowledgeable and experienced at what we do. But most importantly they care about our business as much as I do.
Community involvement:
I have spent time on various boards for the Town of Princeton, most recently on the capital improvement committee. Most of my involvement revolves around my three children. I have coached all three of my children’s T-ball teams. I have served on the board of Wachusett Pop Warner as the football director and also as a coach. I am on a board of a sailing club that my children attend. Working with and for the kids is by far some of the most enjoyable time I have spent.
Biggest professional success:
I hope to look back after my career is through and feel as though I have helped the people who have worked with me accomplish their goals. I am proud of the organization that we are building, but in terms of success I think that it will be measured as we go along.
Businessperson you admire most:
My father. He has operated a small excavating company in Princeton for well over 40 years.
If you weren’t doing the job you’re doing now, what would you do?
I would be trying to figure out how to create my job. I am an entrepreneur to my core and I love enhancing people’s experience around there home. If I were told I could never have this job, I would probably go back to how I started the business and be in the field building walls and caring for plants. It is what I love.
If you were stuck on a desert island what book would you want to have with you?
I love reading about the American Revolutionary times. So I guess a 1,000-page historical account of the life and times of that era would do.
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