When a young Katy Kothmann Abraham visited her father’s office in the Fort Worth Stockyards, she was tasked with things like sharpening pencils and organizing books for his construction cost estimating business. As an adult, she embarked on her own career, working as a buyer for multimillion-dollar retail operations before switching to oil and gas and overseeing more than 50 drilling rigs. But in 2012, her father asked if she would consider buying his company, Construction Cost Management.
