Mickey Pizzitola

Partner

My name is Mickey Pizzitola and I am a third generation Houstonian. I grew up in a fairly large family with 4 siblings and great parents. My dad was my role model and I thought he hung the moon. He was a strict man who taught me early on through my chores that hard work was what it takes to succeed at everything in this life. I used to kid around with him saying child labor laws were not acknowledged let alone enforceable in the Pizzitola household, only he didn't laugh, at least outwardly.

I loved baseball growing up and my world as a kid revolved around baseball until at 13 I rode my first motorcycle (unbeknownst to my dad). Much to the dismay of my father, who would eventually speak to me again, I started racing motocross at the age of 15 and my passion for it did nothing but grow. I often jokingly say I paid my way through college on a motocross scholarship. I had hoped to parlay racing into a career after college but injuries and reality came calling.

By chance an executive in the homebuilding industry I had met through racing offered me a job during one summer when I was injured from racing. I was interested in the job because the homes we lived in growing up my dad contracted out. He was an architectural engineering major at Texas A&M (whoop) and worked in the metal building industry for almost 30 years. I took the job, got my start in the homebuilding industry, fell in love with it and never looked back.

My partner Rick Morgan and I met in 1998 at a national homebuilding company where we worked together and became friends. We both are incurable practical jokers and as such like to have fun at each others expense through the hard work this industry dictates. We also really enjoy homebuilding and the people we have met along the way. Our families instilled a collective set of core values in us we both have put at the forefront of what we want Triumph to manage itself by. Work hard, do what you say you are going to do, do what's right by your customers and the rest will take care of itself.

I have known my wife Susanne for almost thirty years now. We are focused on imparting these same values to our son on his journey that we were fortunate enough to derive from our parents.