Featured business person: John Trowbridge

JOHN TROWBRIDGE,

Vice president, Allen, Gibbs and Houlik

Trowbridge’s job entails plenty of numbers, but he enjoys working with people more.

Trowbridge, 49, was born, raised and still lives in Andover. He earned a business administration degree from Wichita State University, working with several small accounting firms while still in college and eventually becoming a part-owner of one.

After 20 years of that, Trowbridge came to AGH as a manager in the tax department in 2005, looking for bigger challenges.

“AGH is a lot like Wichita, which I like to call a big small city. AGH is a big small firm. We’re 120 people. We have big firm capabilities that can match the Big Four even, and yet we have a small firm mentality in the relationship building, which is the aspect I like most.”

Trowbridge was named vice president last month.

“Mostly what I do now is client relations, staff development and recruitment, which is one of the pieces I like most, going out to the schools and recruiting young talent. They keep me young just trying to understand them.”

Trowbridge and his wife, Stacie, who’s a first-grade teacher, have 14-year-old twins, Colton and Carson, who are freshmen at Andover Central and achieve in athletics and cheerleading, respectively. Trowbridge said his wife is a native Texan who teases him about living his whole life in the same town.

“Why would I go anywhere?” he said. “I love it here.”

Joe Stumpe

This story was originally published August 20, 2014 at 10:08 AM with the headline "Featured business person: John Trowbridge."