20-40 Visionaries — Young Turks Set the Pace

“I joke to this day,” Wells quips, that “it must have been a combination of the paint fumes and being sleep deprived that led me to submit my name as a candidate for the position."

On Christmas Eve of 1998, he accepted the vice president post with

LaVigne. When the president decided to leave and start another company one year later, Wells took the helm.