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Short bio
Eugene Bernitsky is the founder of a Florida-based appliance repair network operating three brands (Berne Repair, Berne Appliance Repair, and Norma Appliance Repair) with 20 field technicians and over 7,500 service jobs per year. A heat power engineer by education, he built and led a regional-leading sports nutrition retail chain in Eastern Europe before immigrating to the US with his family in 2022.
He founded Berne the same year, growing it from two technicians to a 30-person company in under four years. He writes about skilled trades, immigrant entrepreneurship, and small business automation.
Facts
- Three brands across Florida: Berne Repair (Broward & Palm Beach), Berne Appliance Repair (Miami-Dade), Norma Appliance Repair (Tampa)
- Team of 30+: 20 field technicians, 6 dispatchers, 3 managers
- Around 7,500 service jobs a year
- Founded October 2022; year one was two technicians doing about 35 jobs a month
- Premium vendor for commercial clients servicing major retail chains
- Previously built a regional-leading sports nutrition retail chain: five stores, $1M annual revenue, up to 1,000 orders a day, early category leader on AliExpress
Can comment on
- The skilled trades labor shortage
- Immigrant entrepreneurship
- AI and automation in blue-collar businesses
- Scaling local service companies
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Available for interviews and expert comments on the topics above.