As a family-funded private equity firm, GCI is committed to fostering sustainable, mutually rewarding partnerships with passionate people who lead innovative companies. We are dedicated to providing patient capital, vital central-office resources, and ongoing strategic business expertise. With this support system, we relieve our companies from near-term pressures and give them the tools to focus on long-term substantive outcomes that impact all stakeholders, including management, their employees, and the community.

MaxUS Operations operates US Packaging - Experts in Food, Beverage, Pet Food and Consumables Packaging, and MaxPax - Experts in Industrial and Retail Filling and Packaging.

Autotrol is a leading American manufacturer of permanent magnet AC synchronous and DC gear motors that can be customized to meet any need. We provide motion solutions for many applications - ranging from medical equipment to commercial appliances, vending machines to industrial controls. Autotrol employs global sourcing programs to consolidate supply chains and provide cost-effective components to our customers. Our vertically integrated facility provides the following services: • Design • Component and sub-assembly • Metal fabrication • Injection molding • Spur gear hobbing • Coil winding • Sonic welding • Testing Autotrol's customer-focused staff has decades of combined experience in engineering, quality and manufacturing. Our customizable products include: • Permanent Magnet AC Synchronous Gear Motors • DC Gear Motors (Iron Core (Brushed), Brushless and Coreless Gear Motors, with optional integrated encoders) • Gear Motor Sub-Assemblies Headquartered in the Greater Chicago area, Autotrol has designed and manufactured high-quality, sub-fractional gear motors since 1964. Autotrol is ISO:9001 Quality Certified and REACH and RoHS Compliant.

• Led monthly financial statement meetings with business leaders, and managed all accounting functions for assigned businesses, including A/R, A/P, journal entries, bank reconciliations, and financial statement preparation/analysis; organized and cleaned old books, implementing correct accounting procedures for recording revenue, COGS, and inventory. • Established accounting policies & procedures for all company entities, forecasted weekly cash positions to determine a variety of project funding, preparing schedule E/C data and 1065 US Return of Partnership Income, and booking 2013 K-1 results to the company’s financials; consistent policies/procedures across the entities led to upper management easily reviewing and determining profitability across each company. • Managed a team of three Senior Accountants and six business entities, assisting with the proper recognition of Groupons, sales & use tax returns, month-end close accruals, financial statement preparation, 1120 S tax returns, and cash funding requests. • Led the financial shut down of Little Miss Muffin, a company entity, including the transition of accounting duties, processing final payroll, open A/P negotiations, aggressive A/R collections, and building shut down; minimized additional spend, bringing in due balances and negotiating payments down to a comfortable point. • Served as an accounting team lead during a system migration from QuickBooks to NetSuite, ensuring companies used the same system; the migration allowed executive leadership to review all businesses and make critical investment decisions. • Determined opening balance sheets for business acquisition and submitted the required documents for business registration in new states. • Collaborated with the payroll processor, establishing a feed from the payroll system to the accounting system; improved payroll journal entry process, and removed manual payroll entries, ensuring accuracy and saving time.