and both Tuccaro and Jenkins attribute the
company’s success to its employees. “I’m
very proud of our employees. We all know
that if the companies succeed, we all do,”
Jenkins said.
DAVE TUCCARO, SERIAL
ENTREPRENEUR
Immediately after completing high school
in the 1970s, Tuccaro moved to Fort Mc-
Murray and joined the oil sands industry.
Since then his resume has grown expo-
nentially; he has dabbled in taxi services,
janitorial services, a bakery and real estate.
He even worked as the band manager for
his own First Nations group, the Mikisew
Cree First Nation in Fort Chipewyan.
Eventually, he arrived at a managerial posi-
tion at Neegan Development Corporation
in Fort McMurray, which was then owned
by four First Nations groups and special-
ized in heavy equipment and construction.
In the 1990s, Tuccaro purchased Neegan.
Since then, he has founded a series of suc-
cessful service companies.
In 2007-2008, Jenkins oversaw the Group’s
construction of an $8 million infrastructure
project. The new facility was developed to
house two companies: Neegan Technical
Services (laboratory and geotechnical ser-
vices) and Water Pure & Simple (bottled
water supplier). The group of companies
now includes Tuc’s Contracting (a trucking
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