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Operators who have owned these businesses, and a board that has closed transactions from hundreds of thousands to billions.

More than 100 years of combined experience across operating, finance, law, and accounting.

The operators

Phil Akin
Phil Akin
Industry Expert & Director

Co-founder and CEO of Clean Laundry. Founded the Duds & Suds franchise, which ran in 30 states and licensed abroad. Four decades operating and building laundry businesses.

Dave Menz
Dave Menz
Industry Expert & Director

Founder of Queen City Laundry, grown from one struggling shop into a multi-location operation. Founder of Laundromat Millionaire, the leading education platform in the category.

Chad Mayr
Chad Mayr
Industry Expert & Director

Founder of Farview Holdings, the parent of University Cleaners and Wash-O-Matic Laundry, a multi-location dry cleaning, laundry, and pickup-and-delivery operator. Nearly two decades in executive leadership before becoming an owner-operator building garment-care businesses.

Tommy Heffernan
Tommy Heffernan
Industry Expert & Director

More than 30 years in laundry operations. VP and GM of Super Laundry, a division of CSC ServiceWorks, the largest route operator in the country.

John Tyrrell
John Tyrrell
Industry Expert & Advisor

More than 25 years in laundry sales, multi-unit operations, and franchise development. Owner of Solomatic by CACO Manufacturing.

Leadership & board

Thomas C. Wajnert
Thomas C. Wajnert
Chairman of the Board

Former Chairman of Reynolds American, where he led the board through its sale to British American Tobacco. He earlier founded and led AT&T Capital Corporation as Chairman and CEO, and took it public on the NYSE.

Michael Rama
Michael Rama
CFO & Executive Director

25 years as CFO of Nasdaq-listed companies. Led over $300M in capital raises at Blink Charging, and helped take NV5 Global public while supporting more than 30 acquisitions. CPA.

John McPhee
John McPhee
Accounting Expert & Director

Former KPMG Global Lead Partner with more than 40 years in audit and M&A deal advisory, supporting public and private companies through complex transactions.

Brent Lambert
Brent Lambert
Legal Expert & Director

Former Chief Legal Officer of Lexmark, a $2B technology company. Nearly 30 years across governance, M&A, and enterprise risk.

Dennis Strieter
Dennis Strieter
Innovation & Growth Advisor

More than 25 years in mission-critical infrastructure and operational scale, advising the platform as it grows.

Arthur B. Gupta
Arthur B. Gupta
Founding Director

Engineer and operator. Built and sold a multi-brand business before Valemont, then set out to build garment care into a national platform. He assembled the board and leads the company.

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Represented by O'Melveny & Myers LLP for legal counsel and Miller Cooper & Co., Ltd. for accounting diligence.

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