Management Team

CFO & Partner

Mike was both the CFO and COO for three major Chicago real estate firms, a family office and the International Carpenters Union. Mike has Co-Led the merger of the largest privately held Chicago real estate firm in Chicago; Co-Led the acquisition of more than 1 billion dollars of industrial, office and multi-family real estate assets; Successfully negotiated more than 8 million square feet of real estate; Financed in excess of 1 billion dollars of real estate assets; Co-Led the development of more than 6 million square feet of industrial assets; and Oversaw the successful operations, analysis and financial review of more than 7.5 billion dollars in real estate assets. 

Mike Brim is a decisive and entrepreneurial-minded executive with a proven record of driving financial and operational performance in organizations. Over his career spanning thirty-five (35) years as both the CFO and COO, Mike’s has proven to be a conscientious leader who has demonstrated exceptional ability to build and develop extremely efficient management teams. He is highly skilled in managing efforts and activities of people, capital, financial and service resources to reduce costs, improve productivity, and enhance operating efficiencies. 

COO & Partner

Steve has spent 40+ years in the food space. His experience includes a strong background in a variety of operations, distribution, logistics, warehousing, and facility projects for multi-billion food organizations. Steve has provided professional leadership to small and large operations overseeing thousands of employees. 

While overseeing US Foods Warehousing and Logistics divisions, Steve built and implemented strategies that created $57.5m annualized improvement in logistics revenue working closely with suppliers, designed and built an inbound logistics department driving annual income from $31m to $181m, developed cutting-edge technology to support logistics driving $5m to $10m annual improvement each year, and developed an intricate cross-dock and redistribution hub network to drive over $20m in annual net income across product categories. Steve was also the Supply Chain subject matter expert on US Foods/Sysco merger integration team.  Steve has redesigned facility layouts to increase throughput in multiple locations generating from 15% to 47% improvement. 

Co-Managing Partner

Mike has 20+ years of industrial real estate experience and has completed hundreds of transactions throughout North America. Mike’s focus is working with manufacturing companies, food processers, and food distributors to evaluate CapEx investments, throughput/capacity constraints, process design, facility layouts, new market expansions, and overall network design. He has extensive knowledge regarding site selection, labor analytics, government incentives negotiation, real estate transactions, developer/contractor negotiations, relocation assistance, as well as general oversite and implementation of complex real estate transactions. Mike spent 10+ years at Avison Young, a global commercial real estate firm, where he was one of the founders of their Private Equity Practice and was a partner on the #1 producing global team in 2018. After Avison Young, Mike went to work as a Principal at Hickey & Associates, a preeminent consulting firm focused on global site selection and government incentives procurement, where he founded their Family Office & Private Equity Practice Group. Mike is one of the founders and Managing Partner of Seismic Facility Solutions. 

Co-Managing Partner

Mitch has spent his 30+ years working in food manufacturing, distribution and technology. He is a CPA by training and has held numerous executive leadership roles as CFO, CEO and Owner of private equity owned companies. Mitch is skilled at identifying, evaluating, and executing corporate development opportunities, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and technology development. Mitch recently sold a food distribution company where he was CEO and major shareholder to Lineage Logistics. He crafted sales and marketing strategies, as well as facility and network strategies, accomplishing annual double-digit growth while increasing margins and exceeding budgeted targets. Sales grew from $150M to over $500M while growing EBITDA by 300%. Mitch has also spent 10+ years involved in food processing, acting as an operating CFO for Red Gold; during his tenure he assisted in more than doubling EBITDA, led M&A processes and oversaw all plant expansion activity.  

Procurement & Sourcing Lead & Partner 

 Randy is founder and majority owner of The Seismic Group, a holding company that owns a series of supply chain and operational consulting firms – Randy is an entrepreneur, board member, and investor in numerous companies. In his role Mr. Briesath is CEO and oversees The Seismic Group, the consulting practices, and provides strategic procurement advice to food and manufacturing clients. These clients primarily include CPG companies of all sizes. Mr. Briesath has spent his entire career in the field of purchasing and purchasing consulting. 

Labor Analytics & Site Selection Lead & Partner

Jason 20+ years of manufacturing business analytics, data science, and strategic leadership experience in public and private equity owned business, Jason specializes in creating award winning analytics strategy, capabilities, teams, and solutions that drive tangible revenue and EBITDA improvements.  Jason is the founder of Labor Titan, a preeminent labor analytics and site selection software platform.  Jason has a total quantifiable career revenue impact of $300 million+ and EBITDA impact of $75 million+, his teams have been successful in translating data and analytical insights into actionable business strategies and activities that drive higher revenues, greater margins, and market/wallet share growth working with both public and private equity owned companies (Weil-McClain, Mauser/BWAY, Newel Rubbermaid, Nalco, and Conagra). In addition to analytics, Jason also has extensive executive experience in organizational, sales & channel, and marketing strategy design, sales operations, financial reporting, market research, price management, supply chain optimization and M&A due diligence. Jason was recognized as an HVAC “Top 40 Under 40” in 2017 and earned his MBA from the University of Notre Dame. Jason was formerly ranked the #1 high school sprinter in Illinois (100m, 200m and 400m). He then followed up his high school career by becoming a Division 1 athlete at the University of Oregon. 

Government Incentives Procurement

Kate previously founded and ran the government incentives practice and ran the public sector practice at Baker Tilly, one of the largest accounting advisory firms in the world.   

Kate performs financial analysis of public-private partnerships (P3) and economic development initiatives to optimize available project financing options, structures incentives and tax credit programs that impact  growth and development initiatives, provides application and feasibility reviews for federal and state tax credit, financing and funding programs, develops tax increment financing (TIF) strategies and projections, creates TIF districts and consults on redevelopment and TIF agreements.  Kate formerly served as an economic development consultant to public sector and not-for-profit agencies and also has worked as a project manager for a private development firm