MEET OUR CORPORATE TEAM
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Jon Eskola, CEO
Jon has spent his entire career with Eskola, the roofing company his father founded, working his way up from the field to the corner office.
He brings a genuine love of the trade and a relentless focus on the customer to everything the company does.
As CEO, he's leading Eskola through a period of significant growth while holding onto the standard of service the business was built on.
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Ben Eskola, CSO
Ben co-founded Eskola LLC in 2004 and has helped build it into a trusted name across the Southeast.
Having grown up in the roofing industry, he knows the work from the ground up — and that experience shows in how the company approaches the full building envelope, from the roof down to below-grade waterproofing.
Ben leads with a focus on customer service and building teams that take pride in doing the job right.
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Mike Mahar, CFO
Mike Mahar joined Eskola as Chief Financial Officer in 2025, bringing more than 30 years of corporate finance leadership to the company's growth.
A CPA who began his career in public accounting, he spent 24 years with United Road and Vehicle Management Solutions — the nation's largest towing company — most recently as CFO, where he led acquisitions, debt refinancings, and the systems and reporting work that supported an organization with revenue north of $120 million.
He holds a B.S. in Accountancy from SUNY Geneseo.
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Josh Hannoy, COO
Josh brings nearly two decades of construction and operations leadership to Eskola.
A graduate of Ball State University with a B.S. in Construction Management, he built his career managing complex electrical and mechanical projects — including a Thyssenkrupp steel mill contract and the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State — before moving into energy services, where he spent nine years at Veregy and rose to Director of Operations for the Central region, overseeing teams and projects across multiple states.
He is NABCEP certified, holds a national commercial building contractor license, and teaches solar classes at Ball State.
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Scott Stewart, VP, Revenue Operations
Scott is the architect of Eskola's commercial engine. Since joining the company, he has built its go-to-market and revenue operating infrastructure from the ground up — connecting enterprise strategy to execution across every location in the Southeast and Southwest.
He leads the organization spanning Sales, Estimating, Corporate & National Accounts, and Pre-Construction Services, and owns everything from pricing and margin discipline to CRM architecture to a forecasting methodology that delivers remarkable accuracy cycle after cycle.
Scott has a rare gift for building structure where growth has outpaced process, honed across commercial roofing, defense, distribution, and financial services.
Before his career in business, he served as a Non-Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Army, leading an airborne combat team through deployments in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan — an experience that still shapes the discipline, clarity, and care for his people that define his leadership today.
He holds a degree in Accounting and Business Management from Salem State University.
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Chase Shaw, VP, Waterproofing
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David Self, VP, Service
David Self leads Eskola's Service division, a role he stepped into in mid-2026 after nearly a decade with the company — rising from Customer Service and Sales Manager to Corporate Director of Sales and Service, then Vice President of Waterproofing.
His approach is built around partnership: helping clients find the right solution rather than the easy one, and giving them the information to make good decisions without pressure. That focus has earned him President's Awards for account management, overall performance, and safety.
David holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from East Tennessee State University and an Associate's Degree from Walters State Community College.
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Tommy Thomas, VP, Marketing & Communications
Tommy has spent over 27 years in HR and people operations. He began with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 organizations including Merrill Lynch, Jones Lang LaSalle, and Compaq before moving into executive leadership, serving as the senior HR executive for four different organizations across healthcare, SaaS, professional services, and construction. Each time, he built a people function where one didn't exist.
He joined Eskola through its 2024 merger with J.R. Jones, where he had led people strategy through nearly a decade of expansion. He brought his HR expertise to Eskola and built EskolaYou, the company's in-house learning and development program, from nothing — an original curriculum spanning roles such as project management, estimating, sales, and the skilled trades.
In July he took on a new challenge: building Eskola's marketing department with the same rigor he brought to HR — carrying forward the same conviction that has driven his whole career, that a company is only as strong as the people inside it.
He holds a master's degree in Human Resource Management from Colorado State University and two bachelor's degrees from the University of Houston.
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Carol Ward, VP, HR
Carol was promoted to Vice President of Human Resources in June, her first role at an executive level and one she earned over two years of working within Eskola's HR function through rapid growth. She now oversees the full employee lifecycle for a multi-state organization — talent acquisition, performance management, training and development, benefits and leave administration, and M&A onboarding and integration — and directs a regionally aligned HR team supporting employees at every level.
During her tenure she has led and implemented a new HRIS and payroll system, and revamped policy and rewards to support the company's continued expansion.
Carol brings nearly 25 years of HR experience across construction, manufacturing, and beverage production, and holds both SHRM-SCP and SPHR certifications.
“HOW DO I GET THE MOST OUT OF MY ROOFING AND WATERPROOFING?”
The key to long-term roof performance is consistent preventative maintenance and repairs. Often, major roof problems only come to the building owner’s attention when a leak has already happened, and after considerable damage has been done to the structure, equipment, or inventory.
Eskola has developed a comprehensive, and customizable, program designed to provide your building with consistent maintenance, attention and care. The program will maximize the performance of your roof system, ensure warranty compliance, forecast expenditures, and find potential issues before they become costly leaks.