Andreas Yutaka Gruson

Andreas Y. Gruson is a partner of Industrial Advisory Services, LLC, a private equity sponsor and operational and strategic advisor to companies in the environmental services industry globally. Mr. Gruson is an Operating Partner at H.I.G. Capital Management, LLC and the managing member of EcoPower Solutions, LLC. Since 2014, Mr. Gruson has served as Executive Chairman of Compology, Inc., a hardware and software company which builds the only dynamic routing and waste volume monitoring system designed specifically for the environmental services industry. Since 2016, Mr. Gruson has been a director of Estre Ambiental S.A., the leading Brazilian environmental services company with operations throughout Brazil. Since 2011, Mr. Gruson has been a partner, director and member of the Strategic Planning Committee of Grupo Sala, the leading environmental services company in Colombia. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Gruson was Chairman and CEO of Regus Industries, LLC, a solid waste logistics and disposal company based in the Northeastern United States. From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Gruson was at UBS where he started and headed the Industrial and Environmental Services investment banking practice. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Gruson worked in the Industrial Products & Services investment banking group at Deutsche Bank Securities. Mr. Gruson holds a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Gruson is a founding director of Squash Urbano Colombia, a non-profit organization focused on bettering the lives and futures of underprivileged children in Colombia through a rigorous combination of educational tutoring and squash.