This profile is the inaugural edition of Destination Ann Arbor’s Great Minds Think a Lotseries, highlighting influential leaders in Washtenaw County who make a positive impact within our community.

Sean Duval is the kind of person that some would present as evidence that the American Dream is still possible.

While working as a manager at a local McDonald’s in the early 1990s, he learned that a jewelry store’s offshoot business – Golden Chain’s Limousine Service, based inside Weber’s Inn – was shutting down. He got a bank loan; bought two sedans (and rented a van) from Golden; and worked full-time at McDonald’s, then later the Federal Correctional Facility in Milan, while working part-time to build his version of the new business, which he renamed Golden Limousine.

In 1998, Duval started working full-time for the still-growing business, and Golden Limousine is now – with an owned fleet of 25+ units, a local network fleet of over 100 units, with ties to hundreds of companies with thousands of vehicles worldwide – celebrating 27 years in business. READ THE REST HERE