BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Experienced Operators. Patient Capital. Real Industry Expertise.

Our board brings together operators who've built and exited service businesses, capital partners with deep transaction experience, and industry experts with hands-on trades knowledge. Together, they help guide every acquisition, every operational decision, and every step of building businesses that last.

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What Our Board Does

Our board provides strategic guidance, governance, and industry insight as we build a long-term platform of trades and infrastructure businesses across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.

They support key decisions across acquisitions, operations, and growth — ensuring every business in the platform is run well, every owner partnership is structured fairly, and every long-term commitment we make is one we can keep.

Our Leaders

Our directors bring deep operating experience and credentialed expertise across mergers and acquisitions, operational transformation, capital markets, federal contracting, and trades industry leadership — combined with hands-on experience running the kinds of businesses we acquire.

Daniel S. Peña Sr.
Chairman of the Board
Daniel S. Peña Sr. is a globally recognized entrepreneur, growth strategist, and founder of The Guthrie Group, an international investment consortium focused on large-scale transactions and value creation.
Alexandro Armour Sr., PhD, PMP, CEPA
Managing Director
Dr. Alexandro Armour Sr. brings deep expertise in mergers and acquisitions, operational integration, and organizational transformation. A veteran Air Force officer turned executive strategist.
Dean Marcus, JD
Legal Director
Dean Marcus brings more than two decades of legal leadership advising high-growth companies operating in complex and highly regulated environments.
David Grossman, CPA
Chief Financial Officer & Finance Director
David Grossman is an accomplished financial executive with extensive experience in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and public company financial reporting.
Elaine Kapusta,
Industry SME
Elaine Kapusta is a highly respected financial strategist and former corporate executive with a distinguished record of driving transformation, operational efficiency, and enterprise growth.
Louis “Henry” Gilford, P.E.
Industry SME
Henry Gilford is a licensed Professional Engineer with extensive operating experience across mechanical trades and infrastructure services. He brings the engineering and field perspective to Trades Mosaic's board — evaluating every potential acquisition through the lens of the operational, technical, and crew-level realities that determine whether a trades business will keep performing after close.

Together, our directors bring combined decades of operating, transaction, engineering, and legal experience — paired with the credentials and discipline required to build a multi-vertical trades and infrastructure platform that lasts.

Why This Matters for Business Owners

For business owners considering a partnership with Trades Mosaic, our board provides confidence that the company, the employees, and the customer relationships they built will be stewarded by leaders who understand both operating reality and long-term ownership.

Governance Without Losing Operational Independence

Our board provides strategic governance — it doesn't run your business. Day-to-day operations stay with the CEO and operating team. The board sets direction at the platform level, supports major decisions like acquisitions and capital investments, and helps connect acquired businesses to expertise when it's useful. Beyond that, the people who know your business best keep running it.

Strategic guidance beyond day-to-day operations

Most independent trades businesses don't have access to board-level strategic expertise — M&A, capital markets, federal contracting, scaling operations across regions. Joining Trades Mosaic gives your business that access without adding overhead. You get the strategic resources of a much larger company while keeping the autonomy of an independent operator.

Access to deep industry expertise

Our industry subject-matter experts have run mechanical trades businesses, managed infrastructure operations, and led field teams in environments like yours. When a real operational question comes up — equipment financing, crew development, federal certification strategy, vertical expansion — the answer comes from someone who's done it, not from a consultant.

Support for long-term growth and expansion

Growth doesn't have to mean exits, layoffs, or rebrand consolidation. With a board built around long-term ownership, expansion happens at the right pace for your business and your team. Sometimes that means new service lines, sometimes new markets, sometimes acquiring an adjacent competitor — but always at a pace and shape the operating leadership wants.

FOR CAPITAL PARTNERS

Disciplined Governance for a Long-Term Platform

For capital partners and institutional readers evaluating Trades Mosaic, our board brings disciplined financial oversight, proven growth strategies, and the governance infrastructure required to support a high-performing, multi-vertical trades and infrastructure platform — including the regulatory and credentialing discipline necessary to operate inside federal and secured-facility verticals.

Talk to the Team
Behind the Board

Whether you're a trades owner considering a partnership or a capital partner evaluating the platform — start with a conversation. Our team will route you to the right person, no marketing layer in between.

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