Alfonso J. Cervantes

Alfonso J. “A.J.” Cervantes is the founder and Executive Chairman of Bonne Santé Group. Mr. Cervantes is also Chairman of Trilogy Capital Group, LLC, a private equity firm and a principal shareholder of BSG. Through more than 35 years as an executive in diversified businesses, Mr. Cervantes has accumulated extensive experience in the public markets with a proven strength in corporate finance and the development of emerging growth companies.

Since 2002, Mr. Cervantes has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Trilogy Capital Partners, Inc., a financial services group, and an affiliate of Trilogy Capital Group. His significant corporate finance experience includes M&A, IPOs, APOs and PIPEs as well as the reorganization of middle-market companies. Both as a principal and financial services professional, Mr. Cervantes has facilitated a significant number of M&A transactions. In addition, Mr. Cervantes possesses a deep understanding of securities laws and corporate governance.

In 2012, prior to the organization of Trilogy Capital Group, Mr. Cervantes founded a pure start-up, Staffing 360 Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: STAF), an emerging growth public company engaged in the provision of temporary staffing services on a global basis. In a period of five quarters, Mr. Cervantes completed five acquisitions, facilitated approximately $25 million of debt and equity financing, and drove Staffing 360 from a pure startup with no revenues or employees to over $140 million in annualized revenues with approximately 3,000 employees. In 2014, Mr. Cervantes resigned from Staffing 360 to assume responsibilities as Chief Executive Officer of Trilogy Capital and to focus on the development of Trilogy’s portfolio companies.

Throughout the 1990s, prior to his work with Trilogy, Mr. Cervantes was engaged in the reorganization and recapitalization of distressed middle market companies, serving as interim CEO for a number of public and private entities facilitating Chapter 11s, Chapter 7s, and out-of-court reorganizations.