As Chairman and CEO, Dominick Guarino has grown the company from the ground up along side President Rob Falke, into the HVAC industry’s largest independent training and certification organization. He co-founded NCI in 1994 with Rob (originally National Balancing Institute). In 2005 he led the development of ComfortMaxx, NCI’s cloud-based solution for Performance testing and Verification. In 2008 he negotiated and managed the acquisition of International Service Leadership (ISL) – A membership organization focused on every aspect of helping HVAC contractors. Dominick oversees all aspects of NCI’s operations across the US and Canada, finance, new product introductions, as well as sales and marketing.  He presides over NCI conferences and speaks at numerous HVAC industry conferences and meetings. In 2015 Dominick was elected Chairman of the Council of Advisors to the Western HVAC Performance Alliance.