Bob Milkovich CEO of Rand* Construction Company

Published: Jan. 23, 2019, 1:14 a.m.

b'Bob Milkovich on the good fortune to have have worked for top-notch "Flagship" companies~\\n\\n"I consider myself incredibly fortunate to have come here and worked and met people like you, and Ernie Fears, and Tony Renaud at WMAL. And then I went to work for Oliver Carr Company. And then I was able to go and work for Goldman Sachs. Then from that I went to First Potomac Realty Trust and now I\'m with Rand* Construction and Linda Rabbitt."\\n\\nBob Milkovich, CEO of Rand* Construction in-studio interview\\n\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThis is Andy Ockershausen, this is Our Town, and this is sort of like nostalgia day for me and for Janice and for Ken, because, one of our great, great, I mean that, great, great friends, from the early days of the success of the greatest radio station in the world was a man named, a young man named Bob Milkovich, who I had heard of and discovered when he was a quarterback for the University of Maryland. Len Klompus told me about him. At the same time he had us hire Ken, not Ken, Ken Beatrice. He came down from Boston, and Bob Milkovich, welcome to Our Town.\\nBob Milkovich:\\tWell, thank you Andy. Thank you Janice. It\'s so good to be here and I feel so welcomed. I\'m back in a place that I called home back in the early \'80s when I first came here as a college intern. And I-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tFrom the University of Maryland.\\nFrom the University of Maryland to WMAL\\nBob Milkovich:\\tUniversity of Maryland. I actually was introduced to the station by Johnny Holliday so there\'s a, you know, a-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWe\'re all in this thing together. Before that there was ... What\'s his name from University of Maryland?\\nJanice:\\tTim Brant?\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tTimmy. Tim came here but the athletic director-\\nBob Milkovich:\\tRuss Potts was a big promotion guy.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tRuss Potts. He was a promoter wasn\'t he?\\nBob Milkovich:\\tRuss Potts.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tOh my God.\\nBob Milkovich:\\tHe was a big promoter and, you know, he always had promotional campaigns well ahead of his time. Some of the people we were talking about earlier, Andy.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tOh my God.\\nBob Milkovich:\\tEverybody was kind of ahead of their time.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tI kept asking how he got to be an athletic director but Dick Dull, all those people were friends of ours, Bob. But Milkovich is here that\'s because we\'re so excited, he has become and just been named the President of the Rand* Company, which for Washingtonians, that those of us that know about it, is great, great position, and great for Bob Milkovich to run this company.\\nBob Milkovich - New Position as CEO of Rand* Construction\\nBob Milkovich:\\tYes. Thank you, Andy. I\'m honored. Linda Rabbitt-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tShe\'s a wonderful, wonderful woman, Bob.\\nLinda Rabbitt, Chairman of Rand* Construction\\nBob Milkovich:\\tShe is and I enjoy working with her, and she is so talented, and her community involvement is above everybody\'s standard.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tI started with Linda ... She went to college with some friends of mine that went to University of Michigan and they were all in the same sorority. So I go back to her with the early \'80s. About your time as a matter of fact, when she worked for Steve Harlan. She was Steve\'s assistant well before she got into the building trades. But Linda is a magnificent example of a female that really made it big. And she was doing it back in the early \'80s when not many other females were doing what she was doing.\\nBob Milkovich:\\tThat\'s right. That\'s right. And, you know, back at-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tStarting her own company, Bob.\\nBob Milkovich:\\tShe did, and after I left radio I actually went to work with the Oliver Carr Company which I\'m sure you know Oliver well.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tOliver T. \\nBob Milkovich:\\tOliver T. Yeah, he\'s very civic-minded and quite a visionary.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tOllie, great guy.\\nBob Milkovich:\\tAnd, you know, interestingly enough, the intersection of all of us. Linda, actually,'