1. When you see a very well dressed young woman headed off to her day at the office, one
would never think that she spends her lunch hours at the local pond trying to catch a big
fish for dinner. But normal and unusual is not something in Trennica Rigg’s vocabulary.
Rigg and her husband spend every chance they get fishing and even getting involved in
local tournaments, just to compete against one another. The local record as it stands
today, Rigg has won the most female tournaments in the last two years than any other
local female has in the last ten years. The real passion however is Finance.
Since starting with MLB Construction Services, in 2005 as their financial controller, Rigg
has been able to advise and maintain the finances for a company that has gone from
twenty five million dollars in revenues to eighty five million dollars in revenue in just the
last five years alone. MLB has been in an ownership transition in the last five years that
Rigg has coordinated and implemented. “The buyout process was suppose to take ten
years,” says, MLB’s President, James M Dawsey, “but with a lot of strategic planning
and financial management, we have been able to do it a lot quicker. I don’t know how
Rigg and her crew pump out the volume, but every year the numbers show it, hands
down.” “It is a lot of hard work and dedication” Rigg says, “I could not do it without the
help of my staff. I have a great bunch of people that work for me and I know I owe a lot
to them.” Rigg oversees operations for MLB’s accounting offices not only in New York
at their corporate headquarters but for their Apex, North Carolina, Tampa, Florida, and
Dallas, Texas offices as well.
“It’s hard to get around to all the offices so often. It seems like I go visit one then
another, and then I leave to start all over again.” The use of Skype cameras and “Go to
my meetings’ has really helped to bring all the offices a lot closer together without
actually traveling to each office. Rigg says MLB is able to cut down a lot of traveling
expenses and loss of productivity tremendously by having meetings held remotely, rather
than spending time and money going to the other offices.
“If I say we need to cut spending, Rigg treats it as though MLB is her own checkbook”,
Dawsey says. “Rigg is someone that I know I can rely on to trim the fat. If you want
someone to tell you like it is, she is the one.” Rigg wears many hats at MLB. She is also
in charge of Human Resources so it keeps her very busy. “Between managing people,
helping people, and talking to people, I’d say it’s a people business,” Rigg says. “I don’t
get to take lunch outside the office too much, but when I do and the weather is nice, I’m
glad Round Lake is right around the corner so I can relax for a minute and get some
fishing time in.” She laughs, “I have to stay in the game, and I never want to say my
husband can out fish me.”
As MLB heads into the end of the second quarter of 2011, their financials already show
their revenue numbers at forty five million dollars. With their backlog for the remainder
of the year, the projections are that they will hit the one hundred million in revenues
benchmark this year. The highest bench mark the company has reached in their sixty five
year history. Rigg sighs, and for a brief moment there is silence, and then she says” we

2. can do it. If we hit eighty five million last year, without adding staff, what is another
fifteen million, bring it on.”