Tad Skylar Agoglia (born 22 May 1976) is originally from Long Island, NY. Agoglia is an entrepreneur and humanitarian. He is the chairman and founder of The First Response Team of America, a nonprofit organization providing immediate disaster relief and recovery services to communities using specialized heavy equipment and a travelling crew of highly trained responders. Early life Agoglia was born in Queens, NY and grew up on Long Island, NY. Agoglia first started working at age 12, pumping gas. He was a successful entrepreneur by the time he was in high school, building various businesses in landscaping, snow plowing, Christmas tree farming, and contracting. Career Prior to creating the First Response Team of America, Agoglia had a successful and lucrative excavation and crane company. His then for-profit company, Disaster Recovery Solutions LLC, operated on the highly profitable debris removal contracts working in the aftermath of large-scale disasters. Typically, Agoglia and his crew wouldn't start their work in the ravaged communities until months after the initial devastation, after the contracts had been finalized. In May 2007, Agoglia and his crew were in the middle of a contracting job in Missouri when an EF-5 tornado leveled the town of Greensburg, Kansas, destroying 95% of the community. He left Missouri with his equipment from his LLC, and started toward what was left of Greensburg. Greensburg's already limited resources were either destroyed or inaccessible to its firefighters and the town was in desperate need for Agoglia's uniquely specialized equipment. Fortuitously, Agoglia had brought the exact machinery needed to clear the roads of debris and power lines, and helping the firefighters access their firehouse and equipment. Agoglia spent weeks in Greensburg, assisting families to clear debris from their home sites. From that Greensburg storm moving forward, Agoglia and his Team travelled from one disaster zone to the next, offering their assistance to every community they could, for no charge. The first 2 years of the not-for-profit work operated using over $1 million worth of equipment from Disaster Recovery Solutions LLC and also from Agoglia's personal life's savings of over $1 million; a pocket of wealth earned not solely from the LLC, but also first pennies earned since he started working at just 12 years old. Responding pro bono to 18 communities in those 2 years, Agoglia felt fulfilled but was financially depleted. Entering the financial crisis of 2007–08, it was poor timing to launch