SANDY – Brad Bonham was comfortably into what we’ll call his first retirement when he was summoned to a meeting with the governor in early 2023. It had been a year and a half since he’d sold Walker Edison, the ready-to-assemble e-commerce furniture company he’d started from scratch in 2006 and turned into such a runaway success that it was acquired by Blackstone, the New York-based “world’s largest alternative asset manager” that has a reputation for buying only the best.