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Bill Golden, founder of Golden Boat Lifts, is a marine mechanic who has made many significant contributions to the watercraft lift industry. His creations are used throughout the world by various boat lift manufacturers. Golden Boat Lifts are distributed worldwide by

Bill Golden, a native of Summerville, New Jersey, was born in 1960. At 15 he already had already honed many skills while helping to build an assortment of Metal Buildings and Draw-Bridges.

He is a graduate of Summerset County Vocational Trade School, in New Jersey, specializing in mechanics, where he learned the basics of the building and manufacturing skills. Golden became a Licensed Marine Contractor in 1993.

Bill moved to Fort Myers, Florida at 19, where he took a job with a welding company working on shrimp-boats at the Fort Myers docks. It was during that job that someone asked him to weld the parts of a boat lift together. This opportunity started him on his ultimate desire of starting a boat lift company, which he eventually founded. He used this company as a springboard to bigger things when he sold it in 1996 and is still in business today.

Shortly after the sale, in that same year, he expanded his horizons by starting his new companies: Golden Boat Lifts, which includes Jet Ski lifts and Golden Manufacturing. His products includes lifts for small and large boats up to 250,000 pounds.

During these ventures, as a self-taught engineer, he applied for and received patents on a number of his own creations including
 * A unique boat lift that has no top beams.
 * A cable tie-off device, now used throughout the boat-lift industry, worldwide.
 * A wide variety of unique boat-lift designs and devices which are now being used throughout the industry in a wide variety of countries.

As far back as 1986, Bill created the first aluminum elevator styled boat-lift. Previously, these lifts were built using galvanized metal, which did not stand up to the harsh environment of boating. The fact that the very first one he built over 20 years ago is still in operation today is a testament to his innovative talents. In addition, many years ago he built his, now famous C-Drive which he designed and created with a gearbox manufacturer. This Golden creation has become the premier gearbox in the industry numbering over 14,000 in operations with  zero failures.

More recently he focused on a problem facing the boat-lift industry. In areas surrounding mountainous terrain, or where the depth of water prevented the construction of pilings to anchor docks and lifts,, he created the first and only  Floating Docks and  Boat Lifts. Golden Manufacturing maintains an exclusive licensing agreement to manufacturer these around the world.

Bill Golden's unique abilities and aggressive marketing has allowed him to quickly expand his company's footprint in United State's markets including: Hawaii, California, and up and down the East Coast of America, eventually spreading  again to Europe, and South Africa, to  the Middle East countries and Malaysia with now being served by over 200 Golden Manufacturing dealers.

With his creative eye on new products, he added to his list of companies with Tikimundo (Tiki-world in Spanish), which he started in 2000. He had noted that dock builders could not find anyone who could construct a recreational Tiki hut on their docks that lasted long enough in the surrounding waterway environments, nor could be built fast enough for consumers. Bill headed right for the drawing board and designed a variety of huts to fit every need, covering them with a new plastic thatch material. Bill discovered this long lasting thatch material while doing research at his second home in Costa Rica. His innovative Patent-Pending designs and high quality products, have allowed this newest venture to expand word-wide, with 20 to 30 dealers, as well as direct sales through his home company.

Mr. Golden's titles and current associations include:

 * President of Golden Manufacturing
 * President of of Golden Global Manufacturing
 * President of his Tiki division
 * Director of VIPp Properties (A property ownership company)
 * Board of Directors member of The Southwest Florida Marine Industy Association
 * National Marine Manufacturers Ass.
 * Member in Good Standing Florida Marine Contractor's Association
 * International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions.

Past Associations

 * 1997 American Management Association (for Selling Technical and Industrial products, Chicago
 * 2001 Principles of Lien Manufacturing, Lee County