06/11/2026
Throwback Thursday – An Excerpt from Our History Book The Next Hundred Years
Our Founders and Leaders: Thomas F. “Tom” Siebert II
As a high school and college student raised in Rochester, N.Y., Tom spent summers working for the family business, R.C. Siebert, Inc., an underground conduit construction company. He attended the University of Denver to study business management and play soccer. He returned a few years later to work in the family business mowing lawns inside substations and painting.
To supplement his income, Tom obtained a real estate license and rented properties. He fell in love with a beautiful tenant, and in 1987 they married and had a baby within the year. Needing steadier work, Tom took a job performing dedicated crew service response, cable pulling services, and expressway pole, telephone, and subway work. He joined KBH in the summer of 1995 as a foreman, bringing with him expertise in these areas. He became a vice president in 2004.
One of Tom’s major contributions to the company was his ability to make sure our employees always had work. Tom had a persuasive air, and, like Jack Streeter, he was frugal. He saw fluctuations in customer construction budgets and inefficiencies among other contractors. He showed enormous labor cost savings when bidding on new lines of work, successfully adding maintenance, nitrogen delivery, and manhole and handhole frames and covers to KBH’s book of work. When the utilities started a major initiative to drive down prices, other contractors were pushed out, but Tom was adept at keeping our prices competitive and work coming through the door.
Many stories have been told about Tom’s frugal nature. Jason Buchinger recalls the time Tom told him that if he and his crew could set five light poles in one day, he would buy them coffee and donuts. Jason and the crew met the challenge, and Tom showed up the next day with a box of day-old donuts and a coffee pot and cups he brought from home.
Tom is an avid golfer and would occasionally slip away to putt a few holes, thinking it was unnoticed. One day while golfing with business associates in a prestigious tournament with media coverage, he was lucky enough to hit a hole in one. To his dismay, this was announced on the radio, and many within the company heard the news—He was busted!
Back in the office, Tom looked up to his mentors Joe McGloin, with whom he worked in the late 1980s, and Dick Mack. When a young Pat Goodwin joined the company in 2014, he was fortunate to be tucked under Tom’s wing. When Tom felt confident in Pat’s ability, he decided to step back to focus on his personal life. His children were having children, and it was time. Since Tom retired in 2020 at the age of 67, he and Pat have continued to talk business. Tom spends his time golfing, skiing, playing tennis, and wintering in Florida.
Learn more: https://www.pandcg.com/our-history/
