Rob Adams

Chairman

Biography

Rob Adams attended Auburn University receiving an accounting degree, joined Deloitte in the audit group, and is a Certified Public Accountant. After 3 years with Deloitte, he pursued a Masters in Business Administration at Wake Forest University.

After completing his MBA, he held various operational leadership roles with Waste Management Inc. in the United States and Europe. At Waste Management, he managed operations in North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina.  While in Europe, he introduced the frontend loader system in Italy. At Republic Industries, he completed over 20 waste transactions and sited a regional landfill in South Carolina.

After Waste Management and Republic, Rob spent twelve years at EVE Partners, an investment bank specializing in transportation and logistics. He was responsible for providing interim leadership for private equity portfolio companies including:

  • Charterhouse Group’s United Road Services, an automotive logistics company as the Chief Acquisition Officer
  • Lincolnshire Management’s Amports/General Port Services, a port logistics company as the COO/CEO
  • Fenway Partners’ Refrigerated Holdings, Inc., a temperature-sensitive distribution company with warehousing, transportation and port services as CEO
  • RLJ Equity’s Thompson Trucking, Inc, a bulk aggregate logistics company as CFO
  • Logisticap’s All Access USA, Inc., an e-commerce logistics company as CEO
  • Perdue Partners, Benton Global, Inc, an expedited and last mile logistics company as President

Currently Rob is a managing director of JGS Resources, a transaction advisory firm for the logistics, waste management and staffing industries and has completed over 110 transactions in the space.

Contact Info

Phone : 404.307.0152
Email : ra@jgsresources.com