About us

Max Meyer

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, around people who built businesses. My family has built companies in HVAC and home services, commercial carpet cleaning and maintenance, specialty pharmacies, legal-services administration, energy efficiency and maintenance, and clothing stores. My uncle and cousin built Redwood Services, an HVAC and home services company that partners with great local operators and helps them grow the right way. My great uncle started Lansky Brothers, known as the "Clothier to the King," and clothed Elvis for his whole career.

I started my career in finance, in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and private equity at Thomas H. Lee Partners and Banyan Square Partners, where I invested in essential services and technology companies and worked with their management teams on add-on acquisitions, financings, and strategic growth plans.

During my MBA at Wharton, I went back to Memphis as Chief of Staff at Redwood Services, which by then had more than 20 partner companies and was valued at over $1 billion. I worked with the CEO, CFO and COO on integrating newly acquired companies into the business, and with the call center, dispatchers, technicians, and owners on partner performance across sales, operations, and strategic finance. I also helped build the systems behind a set of company-wide process improvements. Working with the team on the investment from Altas Partners, and seeing how well it worked out for the local operators who had joined Redwood, is what made me want to buy a business and build on it myself.

I live in New York City with my wife, Olivia, who is excited for me to find a great business to buy. I enjoy playing soccer and compete in several adult leagues in the city. I'm also a passionate fan of the University of Tennessee Volunteers and watch every game they play, which is too often painful to do.

Max and his wife Olivia on a hike — Max and his wife, Olivia

Paul Mewes

I grew up in the Bay Area, where my dad started WaferNet, a company that distributed silicon wafers to the semiconductor industry. He ran it for about 20 years and grew it to around 100 employees. I never worked there, but I heard all of it at home, from the warehouse break-ins to the personnel problems, and I remember him coming back from an overseas trip fired up because he'd signed a new client. I saw how hard it was and how proud he was of what he'd built, and that's why I've always wanted to build and grow a business of my own.

I studied product design at Stanford and always figured I'd end up an engineer, but after college I went into consulting at Mars & Co instead, working with some of the biggest companies in the world on sales, supply chain, and operations. That included a multi-billion dollar expansion plan for a large retailer's eCommerce business and the strategy for an electronics manufacturer's rollout of a remote monitoring and maintenance program. I then spent about three years at Salesforce, developing the sales strategies for their different products and building AI into our workflows.

During my MBA at Wharton I worked with the CEOs of Comprehensive Mobile Care, a healthcare company run by new owners who had bought it. Hiring providers was the biggest bottleneck in the business, so I focused on their hiring strategy, rebuilding how they recruited and what they recruited with so the company could grow.

I live in New York City with my fiancée, Alana, who has supported me through all of this. I play soccer in the city and fly fish whenever I can get out of it. We're getting married in May and looking forward to a new chapter together, with me running a company and the two of us starting a new life wherever I find a great business.

Paul and his fiancée Alana on a four-wheeler at sunset — Paul and his fiancée, Alana

The two of us

We're the two M's behind 2M Group, Mewes and Meyer. We met at a welcome dinner at Wharton, where we were both getting our MBAs, and we've been great friends ever since. We both want to build a great company, and we come at it from different sides. Paul has spent his career on how companies sell and operate, and Max has spent his on how they're financed and grown, so between us we cover most of what running a business takes. We've also evaluated more than 100 businesses together, so we know how we work as a team.

Once we own a business we'll both work in it full time. Paul will run day-to-day operations, the team and sales, and Max will handle finance, accounting and longer-term growth.

We both live in New York and would relocate for the right business. We're ready to buy the right one and put everything we have into running it.