TEAM
Lanre Osinusi
President
Lanre Osinusi is the Founder and President of Kalbot Holding Company. In this role, he leverages nearly a decade of experience working closely with middle-market industrial businesses. His experience includes acting as a sell side and buy side M&A advisor to businesses across a range of industrial sub-sectors, with extensive experience in the Environmental Services and Industrial Services industries.
Prior to Kalbot Holding Company, Lanre was a Senior Vice President with the Industrials Group of Houlihan Lokey’s Corporate Finance / Investment Banking Division, focusing on middle-market Environmental and Industrial Services clients. Before Houlihan Lokey, Lanre was an Investment Banking Associate with the Diversified Industrials Group of Harris Williams & Co. Lanre’s experience as an M&A advisor provides a strong knowledge of the dynamics within the Environmental and Industrial Services sectors. This experience also provides familiarity with the operational demands of middle market businesses; comfort in working closely with experienced operators; and a broad professional network of potential industry partners and advisors.
Lanre began his career as a CPA with PwC, and holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Lanre@kalbotco.com
332-330-0622
Dave Galanis
Operating Advisor
Dave Galanis is Founder and Managing Partner of Pebble Creek Partners LLC, a strategic consulting firm to growing companies, and the organizations that invest in them. Since Pebble Creek Partners was founded, Dave has provided management consulting and financial advisory services to scores of companies in the Environmental, Transportation, and Business-to-Business Services industries. He has also served in numerous interim management positions, including Assistant Treasurer for Waste Management, Inc., North America’s leading supplier of integrated waste solutions. Dave has served on numerous Advisory Boards during his career including with Mahoney Environmental, a leading national recycler of used fryer oil and other waste products.
Prior to Pebble Creek Partners, Dave was Senior Vice President and CFO of ATC Transportation, a leading national provider of outsourced transportation operations and management to municipal transit systems. Prior to that, Dave spent 17 years at Waste Management, Inc. in various financial management capacities, including as the Director of Finance for Waste Management of North America. In that role, Dave led the identification, negotiation, due diligence, and integration efforts in scores of acquisitions made by Waste Management, Inc. during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Dave is a graduate of Loyola University in Chicago, IL.
Greg Ray
Operating Advisor
Mr. Ray has worked in the Environmental Services industry for more than 30 years. From 1999 through 2017, he helped to build the business of Heritage - Crystal Clean, Inc., serving as Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer. From 1994 through 1999, Mr. Ray worked for Safety-Kleen Corp., where he launched their Vacuum Services business, and where he oversaw the business management of all of the company's USA branch businesses. Prior to that, Mr. Ray played a key role in helping to build the Environmental Service business of Evergreen Oil in California.
Mr. Ray is Chairman of the Board of Maviro Inc., and he serves on the Board of Directors of Chemical Engineering Partners. Mr. Ray earned an M.S. in Industrial Engineering and an A.B. in Economics, both from Stanford University.