Don Long

Don Long owned Walnut Valley Auto Body and Towing, which he sold to Caliber Collision in 1999. He was a founder of the Coyote Vision group of multilocation independent collision repairers, whose founders Everest Partners honored in December 2000, and he chaired the Society of Collision Repair Specialists in 1998 and 1999. He later developed Keyes Collision Center in Van Nuys, Calif., which won the Curb Appeal category of the 2004 Collision Business of the Year awards for its building, layout and production flow, and in 2006 he and Robert Bumpus of Keyes received the VeriFacts Innovation Award.