Mr. VanderBurg has significant principal investing, mergers and acquisitions and operating experience. During his career, Mr. VanderBurg has completed mergers & acquisitions transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $2.9 billion and has assisted with over $2 billion of debt and equity financings. Mr. VanderBurg’s private equity experience includes serving as a Partner with Longview Merchant Banc, a Principal with Banc of America Capital Investors, and as a consultant to Shamrock Capital Advisors, Inc., Waud Capital Partners, L.L.C. and Gateway City Capital Investors. During this time, he invested $220 million in fifteen investments in middle market companies.

Mr. VanderBurg was previously Chief Financial Officer of Intelligent Reasoning Systems, Inc. and Director of Manufacturing Business Development of Tycom Corporation. Mr. VanderBurg began his career as a Financial Analyst with First Boston Corporation advising companies on mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance transactions.

Mr. VanderBurg received a BBA summa cum laude in Finance and Accounting from The University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Mr. VanderBurg is a certified public accountant.

Previously he was a director of Global Precision Products, LLC, Six15 Technologies, Hi-Tech Manufacturing LLC and Four Leaf Textiles, LLC, a member of the IMS Companies, LLC advisory board and instructor of Entrepreneurial Finance at the Keller Graduate School of Management.

Mr. Kratky is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Emerald Textiles, the largest acute healthcare linen service provider in the country with operations in California, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona with over 2,200 employees. Mr. Kratky has created deep relationships with major healthcare systems and distributors / suppliers across the United States.

Previously, Mr. Kratky served as Chief Revenue Officer of Angelica, a national healthcare provider, Vice President, Sales Marketing and Product Development for Diesel Forward, a manufacturer and distributor of automotive and commercial vehicle aftermarket components and Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing for two divisions of UCI International, responsible for all sales and marketing activity in the U.S., Mexico, China and Europe, and Vice President, Procurement, responsible for all global procurement, supply chain and quality activities.  Mr. Kratky also served as Procurement Director at Navistar, Inc. leading two Category Management Teams that were responsible for $800M in global purchases, supporting nine (9) manufacturing plants worldwide. Mr. Kratky also was the Assistant Vice President and Director of Business Development for PurePOWER Technologies, responsible for sales, marketing, business development and procurement for their domestic and global businesses. In this role, multiple corporate carve-outs and quasi carve-outs were transacted including subsidiaries of Navistar, Holley Performance Products, and Siemens. In two years, Mr. Kratky’s team drove new business revenue generation of over $100 million and EBITDA of $19 million on an annual basis.

Mr. Kratky is currently a director of Purflux Group, serves as an Advisory Board member to Shandong Liancheng Metals, Inc. and Factory Fix, Inc. and previously served as a director for Global Precision Products, LLC, and served as an Advisory Board member of IMS Companies, LLC.

Mr. LaBell is the retired founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Global Precision Products, LLC. Founded in 1997, GPP specializes in precision machining for the aerospace & defense industries and currently operates in three locations, generating in excess of $30 million in revenue. Mr. LaBell has over 40 years of experience in the precision machining industry and has held various roles ranging from machinist to sales engineer to business owner. Mr. LaBell leverages his extensive experience in the precision machining industry to help manufacturing businesses of all types and sizes improve and grow their operations.

Mr. Heinen is a veteran private capital investor with over 30 years of experience in sourcing, structuring, and deploying capital for lower middle market buyouts, with a strong focus on founder-led businesses transitioning to their next stage of growth. He has played a key role in market development for several banks and private investment firms in Chicago and most recently served as Managing Director at First Capital Partners, where he led the firm’s Chicago office. While at First Capital, Mr. Heinen partnered with Touchpoint in its acquisition of Global Precision Products, LLC, and served as an outside advisor to Touchpoint while it owned the company. He subsequently joined Touchpoint to help develop its next platform investment. He also serves on the board of directors for Weather Blanket, a cellulosic insulation manufacturer and Color Craft Graphic Arts, a folding carton company, both of which are based in Wisconsin and are portfolio companies of First Capital Partners. Mr. Heinen was also a founder and current owner of Montessori Children’s Garden, a preschool based in the western Chicago suburbs. Mr. Heinen holds a BS in Accounting from Drake University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and he is a certified public accountant.

Mr. Van Hauen, Founder & CEO of Accelerated Performance Technicians, is a senior-level executive with over 25 years of leadership coaching and experience in multiple industries including domestic, international, union and non-union environments. Mr. Van Hauen has achieved significant results in organizational growth and performance while consistently demonstrating double digit assets and sales growth while expanding revenue, EBITDA and profit lines. Mr. Van Hauen is competitively differentiated among peers due to his unique ability to connect the workforce development and coaching needs of front-line leadership, executives, and company officers to the shareholder’s long-term vision. Previously, Mr. Van Hauen served as Executive Vice President of Human Resources at The Maschhoff Family Foods, overseeing all aspects of leadership development and HR during the company’s growth from $110 million to over $1.5 billion over a 10-year period.