Business Career
Fimian is a former certified public accountant, and worked for seven years as an auditor and accountant during the 1980s. Fimian audited oilfield operations in Midland, Texas for the international accounting firm Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. which later merged with the international accounting firm Klynveld Main Goerdeler to become KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting firms, with headquarters based in the Netherlands. Fimian also worked for a year in the firm's executive offices in New York City.
In the 1980s, along with two other businessmen, he co-founded Radonics Co., which is now U.S. Inspect. The company has grown to become "the nation's largest provider of residential and commercial property inspection services." Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, the company manages a network of thousands of independent contractors across the country. Fimian is currently the chairman of the company. Fimian faced controversy over his corporation's federal tax liens for unpaid taxes, which he says were the fault of his company's independent contractors and the company soon paid the debt.
Fimian is a co-inventor and holds one United States patent, and notes that, if elected, he would be only the fourth patent holder in Congress. Fimian and three partners invented a radon detection device patent filed under an applicant name of record of "Gemini Research, Inc."
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