Craig R Lentzsch

Texas United States; United States; Dallas Texas United States; North America
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Angel Investors
Stage focus
  • Seed Round
Industry focus
Description
Craig Lentzsch serves as Operating Partner of Transportation, Distribution & Retail at Satori Capital. He is a Board Member of Wanderu. He has held chief executive officer, president, executive vice president, vice chairman, and board of directors positions for Coach America Holdings, Inc., Greyhound Lines, Inc., Dynamex, Inc., the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission, and the Intermodal Transportation Institute at the University of Denver. Lentzsch served until 2007 as president and chief executive officer of Coach America Holdings, Inc., a former portfolio company of Kohlberg & Company, LLC. With 30 business units located in all major cities in the southern half of the United States, Coach is the premier provider of ground transportation and travel services in its markets. During his tenure, the company's revenues increased from $200 million to more than $400 million. Prior to Coach America, Lentzsch served on two different occasions at Greyhound Lines, Inc. Greyhound, publicly traded during Lentzsch's tenure, is the only nationwide provider of intercity bus transportation services. Lentzsch first served as vice chairman and executive vice president of Greyhound from 1987 to 1989, when he and his partners acquired Greyhound in a leveraged buyout. When Lentzsch returned to the company in 1994, he served as president and chief executive officer until 2003. After completing a consensual restructuring in 1995, Lentzsch executed a turnaround plan that increased passenger volume and profits 50% and 20%, respectively, for each of six years.Prior to re-joining Greyhound, Lentzsch served from 1992 to 1994 as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Phoenix-based Motor Coach Industries International, Inc., the largest manufacturer of intercity coaches and transit buses in North America. In 1980, Lentzsch co-founded BusLease, Inc., which became the largest lessor of buses in the United States. He previously served on the compensation and audit committees of publicly traded Hastings Entertainment, a multi-media retailer in small and medium-sized markets in the western United States. Lentzsch also served as chief financial officer and board member for Storehouse, Inc., an Atlanta-based, privately-held, retail chain selling contemporary furniture, and he co-founded Enginetech, Inc., an importer and distributor of automobile engine parts for the United States aftermarket. In 2008, Lentzsch was elected to the board of Dynamex, Inc., a publicly traded provider of same-day delivery and logistics services, where he chaired the audit committee and served on the special committee that negotiated the sale of the company in 2011. From 2006 to 2009 he served by Congressional appointment on the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission. Lentzsch is on the board of directors of the Intermodal Transportation Institute at the University of Denver, where he teaches transportation systems and transportation finance at the masters level. He has completed five years as the chair of the board of trustees for The Winston School in Dallas, Texas. The Winston School serves children with learning differences in the first through the twelfth grades. Lentzsch served as an officer in the United States Air Force. Lentzsch is an honors graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology with a B.S. in applied mathematics and of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with an M.B.A. concentrating in finance and marketing (top 5%).
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    $ 1,000,000
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    € 11,000,000
    Series C funding
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    $ 524,000
    Seed round A
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