Overview

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Mr. Alpert has executed more than fifty industrial start-ups and has completed a variety of successful business acquisitions, including numerous special situations involving the acquisition of undervalued assets. Mr. Alpert has developed a unique expertise in project development, project finance, and consolidation. He founded Tubular Corporation of America, Interlock Technologies Corporation, acquired the assets of the Diamond Shamrock tubular steel processing division among other industrial transactions. His acquisitions included the tubular steel division assets of Babcock & Wilcox located in three states, including 6 million square feet of manufacturing facilities, the purchase of the entire aircraft spare parts inventory from the bankruptcy estate of Eastern Air Lines, Inc., oil service equipment, raw materials and manufacturing equipment. In 1997 Mr. Alpert acquired Land 'N' Sea and subsequently through internal growth and acquisitions became a national seller of marine parts and accessories before it was sold to Brunswick in 2004.He was an original founder of Republic Waste Services, Inc., which became Auto Nation and Republic Systems. He has been a principal and a founder of other diverse, publicly owned enterprises including: Aviation Sales Corporation (an aviation parts distributor and maintenance, repair and overhaul company), PalEx (which became IFCO Systems), Mainstreet Capital Partners. Mr. Alpert has made numerous investments in the steel, aluminum, oil services, manufacturing and fabricating industries, and technology in addition to sponsoring a series of consolidations in fragmented industries.