Winsupply Promotes Backman to Drive East Coast Growth
Key Highlights
- Backman’s leadership has resulted in over 250% profit growth at Greenville Noland Co. and significant company turnaround achievements.
- Winsupply employs approximately 9,000 people across various trades, with annual sales of $7.8 billion as of January 2025.
Winsupply (Dayton, OH):
The company is growing its East Coast presence and has added another person responsible for coaching and recruiting entrepreneurs at the company or who are joining the company.
Jesse Backman, who has been a local company president for Winsupply, has moved into an Area Leader role. Area Leaders coach and mentor Winsupply local companies and lead recruitment efforts of future entrepreneurs. In the role, Backman will focus on supporting new presidents and local companies with substantial top- and bottom-line growth opportunities.
Backman joined Winsupply in 2015 as part of its veterans recruiting program. He previously served in the U.S. Army for five years and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. During his time at Winsupply, Backman trained at Savannah Winsupply before leading Fayetteville Noland Co. in 2016, where he turned around the company’s sales. He has been president of Greenville Noland Co. since 2017. While at Greenville, Backman has led tremendous growth in annual Operating Profit After Tax — increasing over 250% in just one fiscal year.
He also spent several years mentoring many graduates of Winsupply’s management development training program and also leads a peer group of over a dozen local company leaders.
Backman resides in Greenville, North Carolina, with his wife Michelle and their six children. In their free time, they enjoy being active and living off their homestead hobby farm, complete with beekeeping, sheep, pigs, chickens and gardening.
Winsupply’s annual sales were $7.8 billion at the end of the fiscal year Jan. 31, 2025. The Winsupply family of companies employs some 9,000 employees nationwide in a wide variety of construction, commercial, industrial, municipal and MRO trades, including electrical; HVAC and refrigeration; fastening hardware; waterworks and utility; pumps; turf irrigation and landscape; and pipe, metal, specialty and fire system fabrication.