Under Nigerian-born Thomopulos, Heartland Engineer Shows Global Face
Not everyone may be surprised, however, by the engineering firms latest goings-on. The Stanley organization has been doing the nontraditional and unexpected since C. Maxwell Stanley took over the now-91-year-old Muscatine-based firm in the early 1930s. He started an international foray that, to date, has included work in 90 countries on seven continents. Observers note the irony of a company once run by a peace activist that had 70 volunteers to fill nine initial slots for work in war-torn Iraq.