Engberg named business development director at CANCO

Aaron Engberg

BURLINGTON, Iowa – A manufacturing executive with Quad Cities ties has been named business development director at the Carl A. Nelson & Company (CANCO) here.

Aaron Engberg began his new role at CANCO on Monday, Oct. 21.

Carl A. Nelson & Company, which was founded in 1913 in Burlington, opened a Cedar Falls office in 2008; has 111 years of history providing construction services with quality and integrity to design-build, construction management and general contracting customers.

Mr. Engberg will be responsible for leading the firm’s sales and marketing efforts, working alongside project managers to serve existing clints and develop new clients in industrial, commercial and institutional construction markets. He is a member of the company’s leadership team.

“Aaron has a history of streamlining processes and maximizing efficiencies throughout his experience in manufacturing,” CANCO President Chris Smith said in a news release welcoming Engberg to the firm. “He displays a leadership style that fits in very well with the CANCO culture.

“We are excited for Aaron to join our team and look forward to the positive contributions that he will add.”

Mr. Engberg succeeds Dan Culp, who was promoted to as the company’s vice president of operations in its Burington location.

A native of Burlington, Mr. Engberg graduated high school in the mid-1990s – at about the same time as the World Wide Web was coming into the public consciousness, and personal computers were starting to boom. That led him to his first job out of Iowa State University in 1998 with Burlington-based Winegard Company. There, he worked as a software developer on a new line of mobile satellite TV tracking systems for RV, boat and tractor-trailer owners. During his 18 years there, Mr. Engberg’s role grew from software development to sales director to mobile products director.

In 2016, he moved to another Burlington firm, Energyficient Systems, Inc., designing lighting systems for agricultural and other markets. In 2019, he joined Allsteel/HNI in Muscatine, Iowa, first as a project manager and then as a bid manager for large-scale office furnishing projects. “I’m excited to work for Carl A.,” Mr.  Engberg said in the release, noting that his grandfather worked on CANCO projects as a carpenter in the 1950s and 1960s.

Mr. Engberg resides in rural Burlington with his wife of 24 years, Karen, a fifth-grade teacher in New London, Iowa. They are the parents of three: Reagan, 20, a junior at St. Ambrose University, Davenport; Anna, 18, a freshman at St. Ambrose; and Landon, 13, an eighth grader at Notre Dame, Burlington. Both daughters are on the softball team at St. Ambrose, while Landon plays basketball and baseball; which means the Engbergs spend much of their free time at their children’s games.  Mr. Engberg also has been active as a traveling team baseball coach, and currently is working with the Notre Dame baseball team’s fall program.

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