THE 3-MINUTE INTERVIEW: Dino Wright

The founder of Exec-U-Shine Hospitality Services, a shoe shining outfit with stands from D.C. to the Maryland capitol, Wright goes to Annapolis to serve state lawmakers during the General Assembly. He got his start in 1980 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill. How did you get into shoe shining?

You never know where you’re going to end up after high school and college, and I am a college graduate. I’m originally from Buffalo, N.Y., and graduated from the state university at Buffalo, but I came to Washington in the late 1970s and I worked at the FBI field office for a few years. But I noticed that in Washington the market was totally different from what I was accustomed to in Buffalo, a blue-collar city, and I wanted to fill a need.