Gary Rabine is a results-driven entrepreneur with more than 40 years of experience building American infrastructure and manufacturing capacity, and a longtime advocate for the industrial workforce that underpins the nation’s economic strength.

Mr. Rabine is the Founder and CEO of the Rabine Group, a nationwide family of specialized companies delivering paving, construction, and infrastructure services to commercial, industrial, and government clients across the United States. He started the business in 1981 at age 18, paving driveways alongside his father to help pay his way through college. Beginning as a single residential crew in Northern Illinois, the company has grown into an 11-company enterprise employing thousands of Americans, with Rabine Paving and Rabine Paving America now recognized as the largest asphalt and concrete parking lot paving companies in the country. Under his leadership, the Rabine Group has expanded its footprint into snow and ice management, sealcoating, line striping, and national account services, building the kind of resilient, vertically integrated supply chain that keeps critical infrastructure functioning coast to coast.

Beyond the boardroom, Mr. Rabine has taken his commitment to American competitiveness into the public arena, running for statewide office in Illinois on a platform of economic growth, lower taxes, and support for small business and manufacturing. He hosts the podcast Ditch Digger CEO, chronicling the journeys of entrepreneurs who built major enterprises from nothing, and speaks widely on the importance of skilled trades and domestic industry to U.S. economic security.

Mr. Rabine is also an active philanthropist, directing time, talent, and funding toward causes serving children, people with disabilities, the homeless, and military veterans. His commitment is personal: he is the father of four children, including a son with cerebral palsy, and counts support for America’s veterans among his top philanthropic priorities.

Mr. Rabine combines deep operational credibility with a builder’s instinct for growth, translating decades of hands-on experience in American manufacturing and infrastructure into a broader case for the industrial base, workforce, and economic resilience that underwrite the nation’s strength at home and abroad.