Along with a US investor, New York-listed broking group TFS, Aidan grew the business into a multi-million pound operation that recruited investment bankers and IT professionals for the likes of Morgan Stanley, Barclays and Macquarie.
He spent more than seven years in Australia where he met and married his wife, but in 2002 tragedy struck the Conway family when Aidan's brother, Brendan lost his life in an accident at only 32.
Brendan had been running the family business Recomac, while the three other Conway brothers were scattered around the world.
Aidan in Australia, younger brother Gerard, a foreign exchange broker was in Japan, while the eldest, Trevor is the managing director of a gold bullion broker in Dubai.
After some deliberation, it was decided that Aidan would take over at the helm of Recomac.
Arriving back from Sydney, Aidan, who did a degree in European business and finance and worked in Manchester for 18 months before going abroad, took on the role of managing director in 2005.
Now, Aidan says that he is very settled at the family business.
He said: "I spent a year learning the ropes, and also took on my sister, Jacinta, who had worked at the sports agency Elite, as Recomac's marketing manager.
"You never know what is around the corner and I never really thought I'd be running the company.
"But my wife and I are happy to be in Britain and there are now big plans for Recomac to expand into international markets."
Recomac was originally set up by Aidan's father John, who is now chairman, in the early 1990s.
John Conway, a mechanical engineer by trade had, along with his wife, arrived in the UK from Ireland in the late 1960s.
John got at job at Kennedy Asphalt in Manchester and a decade later together with his business partner, John Kelly, bought the group's bitumen manufacturing business.
The pair built the company - called Kelbit - up into a £20m-plus turnover business and subsequently sold the plant to Total Group in 1989.
However, they retained the contract business and used it as the base to form Recomac in 1991.
The group, which is expected to turnover in excess of £12m this year, has three main divisions.
Recomac Surfacing is a specialist road surfacing contractor for local authorities and multi-national companies such as Tarmac and Hanson.
Recomac has also established a successful sports surfacing business.
Aidan says: "My father bought a company that made rubber mats which were used in children's playgrounds.
"However, we then changed the focus to artificial grass and the division is now the fastest growing in the group."
In November 2000, it signed a unique partnership with Manchester council and The FA to provide football opportunities within the city.
Today Recomac Sports is the sole supplier of the Italgreen synthetic grass range, and installs more than 15,000 square metres each year. It also offers a full design and build service for sports facilities and recent projects include Manchester City's Platt Lane Academy Complex and a football pitch for AstraZeneca.
The most recent addition to the group is Recomac Developments which has completed its first development of 30 luxury flats in Worsley on the site of a former depot which the group owned.
Aidan says that Recomac Developments, which owns land in an around the Manchester area, has huge potential and will embark on a number of new developments in the near future.
However, for Recomac Sports, Aidan is looking further a field for its development.
The division has a strategic partnership with high performance sports equipment group ABK, which has opened a number of doors for Recomac.
This year, along with ABK, Matalan and civil engineering company DCT, Recomac is sponsoring the Tongan team at the Rugby World Cup.
Aidan says: "The opportunity came to us through a relationship our partner had. The team is in England's group in the Rugby World Cup so will get quite a lot of media coverage.
"Also, we are looking at doing some work at sports facilities over in Tonga."
However, it is in the Australian market where Aidan is looking to make a name for Recomac.
He still has his recruitment agency, TRC, which is run day-to-day by a manager in Sydney, but Aidan is very much at the helm and flies to Australia around three times a year to keep an eye on the company.
And the sports mad country, where after several years working in the business community Aidan has plenty of contacts in the corporate world, is a perfect market for Recomac to progress in.
He says: "We are currently in negotiations with two rugby league clubs and one soccer club.
"There is massive potential for the group over in Australia and we have an excellent product and reputation to capitalise on this, and become a major player on the international field."
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