Roy serves as the Managing Member of C2C Private Investment Company, assumes the role of CEO at Small Business Development Group, Inc., and leads Business Development at Stony Hill Advisors, Inc. With an extensive professional background spanning over 44 years, he has honed his expertise in Business Development from various angles, having played roles as an entrepreneur, buyer, seller, broker, advisor, and consultant. His experience encompasses leadership positions in both privately held and publicly traded companies. Roy has a proven track record in executing comprehensive deal-making activities, encompassing public offerings, private placements, M&A transactions, turnarounds, restructuring, bankruptcy proceedings, and interactions with financial institutions, investors, stock exchanges, and regulatory bodies like the SEC.
He has actively participated as an investor and principal in numerous transactions across diverse industries, including manufacturing, oil and gas, construction, recycling, renewable energy, logistics and distribution, e-commerce, food and hospitality, investment banking, management consulting, technology and telecommunications, timber, and travel.
Roy's professional journey commenced in 1979 after an honorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps. He founded Salisbury Logging & Trucking, an independent timber company, as an extension of his family business, successfully exiting in 1982. In the same year, he took on the challenge of Travel Agency Collection Services, Inc. (TAC$), steering it through a Chapter 11 process and subsequently acquiring its assets as part of Audit Systems, Inc., concluding this venture in 1987. Throughout the period from 1983 to 1989, Roy engaged in various start-ups and small businesses, including Recycle Unlimited, specializing in aluminum can recycling and supply to a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch, Container Recovery Corporation. In 1989, he assumed control of a troubled computer company, Kaypro Computer Corporation, a major PC manufacturer, which he ultimately liquidated in 1990. From 1991 to 2003, he actively participated in several bankruptcy transactions, including the recapitalization of the NJ Bell Building, and engaged in the acquisition and sale of multiple restaurants and pubs.
In 2000, Roy, in partnership with a UK counterpart, established Transatlantic Surety & Bond Ltd, along with its U.S. subsidiary, Transatlantic Financial Services, Inc. In 2001, the company transitioned into TS&B Holdings, Inc., operating as a Business Development Company under the 1940 Act, and was successfully exited in 2003.
From 2004 to 2023, Roy has been operating under RYS&Co, a General Partnership functioning as a Private Investment Company. In 2013, RYS&Co Management, LLC was formed, which evolved into C2C Business Strategies in 2021, while RYS&Co transformed into C2C Private Investment Company, LLC. During this time, he actively engaged in various merger and acquisition activities, turnarounds, capital formation, and acquired American Card Services, Inc. in 2006, successfully exiting in 2008. Roy also provided M&A consulting services for private and public companies in the United States.
Military Service: USMC 1974-1978, Honorable Discharge
Director: Progress Works (501(c)3 non-profit)
Membership: American Legion Post 5; Loyal Order of Moose
Supports: St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital/Childhood Cancer Research; The Make-A-Wish Foundation; Wounded Warrior Project; Tunnel-to-Towers Foundation