Colts Neck fire: Keith Caneiro brother Paul was first hire for fledgling tech business
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In the interview with the Press in 2001, Keith Caneiro said he grew up with a passion for computers that was so strong that he worked as a janitor at a computer store for free, while moonlighting at McDonald's and Burger King to make money.
The owner of the computer store eventually gave him a chance to be a salesman. He left in 1986 to train workers at a typesetting business how to use the new technology. He started Jay-Martin Consulting in Brooklyn, hired his brother, and moved the business to New Jersey, first to Woodbridge in 1991, then to Holmdel in 1996.
By the time the internet bubble was about to burst in 2001, their technology business had grown to $4.5 million in annual sales and 26 employees.
Keith Caneiro said his clients had expanded from Citibank to other banking giants, including Chase Manhattan and J.P. Morgan.
And Square One landed a contract to design and install a computer network, 41 work stations and a sales system for the American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island. It featured interactive stations, allowing people to research their family histories.
"Your reputation is what travels with you," Keith Caneiro told the Press.
It sounds like Keith was a very ambitious and hard working man. Paul may have risen to success riding on his coattails.