By: Sean Forbes

At construction conferences in San Diego and Hawaii, Asif Choudury had a great time getting together with Bruce Tabler, both board members of the Construction Financial Management Association.

Choudury remembered carousing with Tabler and other colleagues when they were at the CFMA’s summer 2013 conference in San Diego, “clowning around til 4 in the morning, overloading some poor guy with a rickshaw” in the city’s Gaslamp Quarter. “There was hootin’ and hollerin’, just having a good time, no real issues. We had some good food, good times.”

By November of that year, his friend was no longer in the joking mood. And when Choudury, president of Bahar Consulting LLC in Washington, learned several months later that his friend had taken his own life, he was completely unprepared.“It was devastating to me,” Choudury told Bloomberg BNA. “It really was. I was in complete shock.” (subscribe to see full article)