Lessons Learned: Expanding in the Pacific
Lyon Associates, Inc. is a Honolulu-based, father-and-son engineering firm with projects from Micronesia to Bahrain. Jim Lyon, 45, was born on Okinawa, when Frank, now 82, was working for another engineering company. After retirement, Frank realized there was more work and more excitement ahead, Jim says, so he bought the company back and has been expanding ever since. HB: What motivates…