Brian Hoffman

Brian Hoffmann, Grapevine is president and partner along with Bobby Barr (’97) in CE-DFW Warehouse Solutions, a material handling company that was awarded “Small Business of the Year” in the 51-150 employees category by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and the 2014 Most Valuable Partner award by the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association. CE-DFW, which features Doosan forklifts among its products, received the Diamond Award from Doosan and has become the largest volume Doosan dealer in the U.S. from 2010 to 2013. CE-DFW also was named one of the Top 100 Private Businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth area as reported by the Fort Worth Business Press in 2013. Barr and Hoffman are featured in a commercial for Chase Bank, where they talk about how they wanted to go into business together in college. CE-DFW was started in 1998 with one technician and one customer.