HawkGrips®

HawkGrips President and Founder Frank “Oz” Osborne tackles each day with passionate initiative. It’s just his way. At only 22 years old and fresh out of college, he started buying downtrodden properties for renovation and rental. Tirelessly driven, he also worked long hours as a pharmaceutical sales representative at the same time, but that job failed to inspire him.

It was 1997 when he and a coworker bought season passes to ski after work in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. “Prior to that, I had never skied at all,” Osborne recalls. “So they’d hit the slopes about 8:00 at night, and although the snow had usually turned into a sheet of ice by then, I started improving quickly.”