Andrew Hackleman

The Home Builders Association of the Central Coast has hired Andrew Hackleman as its new executive director, Operations Manager Doug Bunch said in an email to the Business Times on Sept. 15.

Hackleman recently retired from the Air Force, where he was a lieutenant colonel, and he has about 20 years of experience with supply chain operations, policy development and analysis, and nonprofit-professional organization leadership, Bunch said.

The HBACC is a nonprofit corporation and trade association that represents home builders and related housing industry professionals in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. It also provides services and resources to contractors and other workers in the industry.

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