Kevin W. Massengill, Chairman, EVI Holdings Corporation

In addition to EVI Holdings, Massengill is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Meraglim Holdings Corporation, a professional, scientific and technical investment holding company. He is the Managing Director of Massengill Advisory LLC and the Chairman of several private companies: NorthStar Essential Holdings, Panthera Senior Living, RecordAI, Regimen Holdings, Southern Wholesale Partners, United Pain Clinics, and Vernal Partners Inc.

Massengill was an award-winning senior executive at Raytheon (NYSE: RTX) and Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a managing director of a boutique investment bank, Silver Leaf Partners, in NY, and CEO of Consultancy Partners Group in Abu Dhabi. A retired US Army Airborne Ranger qualified officer and a Middle East Foreign Area Officer, he holds an M.A. from Princeton University, a B.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia with continuing education at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and INSEAD-Fontainebleau’s International Directors Program.

Walter P. Adams, Chief Executive Officer, EVI Holdings Corporation

Walt Adams is a seasoned and highly successful business development and service delivery professional with 35 plus years of multi-national experience in federal, international, and commercial markets. In addition to leading operational integration of acquired companies to preserve corporate valuation, Walt is a veteran of multiple technology and services startups, both organic and venture-backed, including successful IPOs. Walt helped grow startups such as Teligent, iSavvix, Airak, and iKimbo. He worked on several boards, including Airak, and served as COO for iSavvix. Walt is the founder of EVI and serves as founder and CEO of Praxxs and Century 22 Solutions. Walt also has experience as president of the Broadband over Power Line Industry Association (BPLIA), where he worked with the Federal Communications Agency to develop industry regulations.

Walt has extensive experience qualifying and pursuing international business in Saudi Arabia, Poland, and Cambodia. He also developed global technology strategies for multinational pharmaceutical conglomerates in Europe, Latin America, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

Throughout his career, Walt developed his extensive domestic and international experience working for companies such as Teligent, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), and James Martin Strategy. In addition, he has developed key business alliances and worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies, including Leidos, SAIC, GDIT, Lockheed Martin, General Motors, DirecTV, Deloitte Consulting, Warner Lambert, Schering Plough, the Navy Exchange, Nippon Telephone, Telegraph (NTT), and Motorola.

Robert J. Miller, Director, EVI Holdings Corporation

Wealth of experience in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property strategy, technology licensing, contract law, litigation and claims defense, and international trade. Built and developed strong legal teams both domestically and internationally to meet the ever changing legal landscape. Effective and valued counselor to senior global management. A strong, proactive, principled leader with high energy and a tenacious can-do attitude. 

Robert J Miller has extensive experience as a Legal Corporate Executive leading a 150+ lawyer department at a Fortune 50 company and as a hands-on lawyer doing deals varying in size from $1 million to $55 billion. Miller was a valued counselor to senior management . He has led legal teams of in-house and law firm lawyers in the US and across the world with a significant focus in Asia. His 37 years of experience include a 30 year career at Procter & Gamble and a seven year career as a Partner and Of Counsel with Jones Day. He is a strong, principled, proactive leader. 

While with Procter & Gamble he progressed through several positions of increasing responsibilities culminating in a six year stint as Vice President General Counsel-Global Legal. During this period he led Procter’s legal work to purchase Gillette and the extensive efforts to integrate the legal teams and entities. He lead joint venture negotiations with Sanofi-Aventis and major outsourcing arrangements with HP, IBM and Jones Lang Lasalle. He led efforts to resolve of defend successfully major competitive disputes and insurance recovery claims. 

Prior to this assignment he served for five years as Vice President General Counsel and Public Affairs-AsIa living in Japan and working extensively in China and across Southeast Asia and India. He established several joint ventures and wholly foreign owned entities in the PRC and helped secure Government approval. Robert led the negotiations to purchase Hutchison Whampoa China’s interest in their Chinese partnerships with P&G. He also purchased and divested businesses in the US, Korea, Taiwan, India and brands in Japan, the US and globally. 

While at Jones Day he represented clients in the consumer products, healthcare, retail, industrial materials and pharmaceutical sectors. This work included transactions, corporate governance and reorganizations, and litigation in the US, UK, India and China. He served as a Director of the Columbus Council on World Affairs. 

After leaving full time legal practice he has continued to help select clients and has focused on teaching law students and MBA students. He is an Adjunct Professor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and at University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business. His teaching has focused on doing business in China and on getting graduating students ready for work by developing pragmatic skills. He also sponsors a speaker series at the Moritz College of Law bringing leading Restructuring lawyers to campus. 

Brian Wieber CPA, CISA, CFE

Director, EVI Holdings Corporation

Brian is an experienced non-executive outside Board Director, Qualified Financial Expert, Chief Audit Executive (CAE), and Senior Advisor with over 30 years of commercial experience leading financial, operational and information technology risk management. He served in these capacities for some of the largest multi-national and U.S. companies including KKR, Lazard, Morgan Stanley, D&T, and Grant Thornton, encompassing all ownership structures, from public, private, private equity, and non-profits, as well as start-ups. Brian currently serves as a Senior Advisor for Grant Thornton supporting their Private Equity Advisory and Execution Practices, and as an Operating Partner for Cadiz Capital. Brian has a great ability to advise, coach and shape strategic agendas, with a real passion for driving change and an imaginative approach to creating transformative outcomes. He is recognized for his skills in building effective relations, supporting investors and Boards of Directors, and rallying teams to achieve results materially beyond what would ever be expected. He places an ethos of fairness and integrity of all corporate, colleague and client-facing activity to enhance performance, engender mutual collaboration, and enable solutions that meet a need. Lastly, Brian is known for being adept at collaborating with boards of directors and executive teams to evaluate internal controls over operational, technological, financial, regulatory compliance and corporate governance and creating a culture of willingness to change.

Prior to his current roles referred to above, Brian was the CAE for KKR, accountable to the Audit Committee and the Firm’s Board of Directors. This position worked closely with all levels of executive senior management, providing strategic direction, leadership and management of the Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk and SOX functions. Such role was responsible for developing, coaching, and leading teams, and developing best practices and nurturing a culture of commitment, with the highest order of integrity.

At KKR, Brian resided on various firm leadership committees: Operating Risk Committee, Global Valuation Committee, Portfolio Management Committee, Information Security Committee, Innovation Committee, and Business Approval Group Committees (Private Equity and Credit), and an active member of domestic and international subsidiary boards (AIFM [Dublin], UK [PE, Credit, Capital Markets], MENA, Asia). Brian has a great ability to advise, coach and shape strategic agendas, and to rally teams to achieve results materially beyond what would ever be expected. He has a real passion for driving change and an imaginative approach to creating transformative outcomes.

Prior to KKR, Brian held executive senior leadership positions at Lazard Freres & Co. and Morgan Stanley, with selected impactful achievements that included global SOX IPO readiness; top rated regulatory audit ratings; best in class audit functions that achieved firm-wide distinction; and a differentiated bench for which front office would tap as part of their hiring programs.  Brian began his career at D&T where he secured his CPA license.

Brian holds an MBA in Finance from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance with Honors distinction from New York University. He received his certifications as a CISA and CFE, and is Series 7, 63 and 27 registered. Brian frequently speaks in public forums, serves as a part-time adjunct professor for Fordham University, and provides strategic advice to business leaders about governance and private equity.

Brian lives in Summit, New Jersey with his wife of 30 years, and has two sons. He is an active participant and avid fan of sports, loves to travel and is committed to health and fitness.

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Randy Jones, Director, EVI Holdings Corporation

Randal (Randy) Jones is an entrepreneur with 25 years of successful experience in business development, contract awards, and program execution in federal, commercial, and international business.  Randy is a co-founder and partner of EVI, co-founder and COO of Century 22 Solutions (HUBZone), Principal and Partner of PRAXXS LLC (HUBZone), and is the Principal for National Security Support Services (NS3) (SDVOSB).  Randy’s experience includes 16 years with SAIC and Leidos where he managed new business pursuits and awards of up to $1B and executed the most complex of government contracts.

Randy is a retired Special Forces officer and Russian Foreign Area Officer, holding an M.A. from Georgetown University in Russian Area Studies, and a B.A from West Virginia University in Russian.  His military experience includes International Arms Control, Special Operations, Psychological Operations, and Defense Intelligence.  He is the author of Pendulum, a cold war historical fiction novel.

Abe Morris, Advisor, EVI Holdings Corporation

Abe Morris has over 35 years of operational, finance, and Wall Street-related experience during which time he raised over $5 billion in capital (both public and private), executed global merger and acquisition transactions, restructured companies in the United States, Canada and Europe, and held various senior corporate management positions. Morris’ experience spans industries including telecommunications, renewable energy, recycling, consumer packaging, LED lighting, geospatial mapping, magazine publishing, food retailing, and construction. Morris has also served as both an executive and board member for several start-ups.

Morris applies his combined legal, financial, operations, and turnaround experience both domestically and internationally. He has held C-level positions on both permanent (Teligent, MFS Communications, and Peter Kiewit Sons) and interim basis (Lighting Science Group, GeoDigital, Infinia, Aria, SpinVox, Asprey & Garrard and Leslie Rudd Investment). Among Morris’ notable accomplishments are restructuring SpinVox and selling this technology company to a Fortune 100 company and spearheading as CFO Teligent’s $1.6B IPO and subsequent growth to a market capitalization of $6.0B.

Abe received a J.D. with High Honors and a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in Economics from The George Washington University. He is active in several philanthropic organizations and serves on the Board of Directors of The Wistar Institute, one of the largest independent medical research institutions in the United States and a leader in biomedical research and vaccine development. Morris and his wife are active supporters of Living Beyond Breast Cancer, an organization that reaches over 600,000 people nation-wide.

Dr. Ali Pashazadeh, Advisor, EVI Holdings Corporation

Dr. Pashazadeh’s healthcare investment banking career spans nearly 20 years, including at Goldman Sachs, UBS, and Blackstone, where he advised companies and boards on large and complex strategic transactions around the globe. He has extensive hands-on operational experience as interim CEOs in complex corporate turnaround situations and in the launch phase of a company.

Dr. Pashazadeh is a trained surgeon, who continues to be an active medical practitioner in the acute care setting having specialized as a trauma and reconstructive surgeon nearly 30 years ago.

In addition to his advisory and medical careers, Dr. Pashazadeh has combined his passions for martial arts and motorsports with his trauma experience by overseeing the implementation of US military trauma protocols in Thai Boxing and by designing driver safety equipment still used today in Formula 1, initiated following the death of Ayrton Senna in 1994.

Dr. Pashazadeh serves in a leadership role on numerous philanthropic efforts, founder of Amazonas Protect (est. 1992) managing and protecting primary rainforest globally, Trustee of the Foundation for My Door (est. 2001) providing a “safe place” for marginalized / disenfranchised families with young children who need warmth and a door they can close.