Pierre G. Villere, Chairman & Senior Managing Partner
Pierre Villere is the President and Senior Managing Partner of Allen-Villere Partners, an investment banking firm with a national practice in the construction materials industry. He has spent over four decades as an investment banker, serving middle market companies in their mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and financing needs. Since 1996, he has focused his highly specialized investment banking practice in the construction materials industry, specifically in ready mixed concrete, construction aggregates, concrete products, and asphalt. He is a member of both the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (“NSSGA”) and the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (“NRMCA”), where he serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NRMCA Manufacturers, Products & Services Division, and also serves on other committees and task groups focused on membership development, government affairs, promotion, and benchmarking performance for the industry. He also serves on the National Steering Committee for the Concrete Industry Management (“CIM”) curriculum program offered at five universities throughout the country, as well as the Advisory Council of the RMC Research and Education Foundation. In 2021, he was awarded the William B. Allen Award by NRMCA in acknowledgement of his decades of education and service to the industry. He has made multiple presentations on various aspects of the construction materials industry to dozens of local, state, and national trade associations and industry partners such as Mack Truck and GE Credit; he spent 15 years as a Contributing Editor at The Concrete Producer, and now currently writes a monthly column for three publications including Concrete Products, Rock Products, and Cement Products where he discusses the business and financial issues facing the industry, and also writes a quarterly column for the WOC360 digital newsletter. Over the past 45 years, he has served at various times as Chairman, President, or a member of the Board of Directors of nearly a dozen charities and non-profit organizations. He is an avid saltwater fisherman, waterfowler, and upland wingshooter.
PVillere@AllenVillere.com
(985) 727-4310 Ext. 107
Andrew M. Kulback, Vice President
Andy Kulback has over ten years of experience as a senior level finance/accounting officer in the wireless communication industry and, more recently, in the construction field. He joined Allen-Villere Partners as Vice President in March of 2004 after serving as the Chief Financial Officer for a large Client Company in the ready mixed concrete business for the previous five years. He is a member of the Alliance of Merger and Acquisitions Advisors (“AM&AA”) and serves on the Business Administration Committee of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (“NRMCA”) and the Industry Data Survey Task Force. He is a graduate of Wright State University (1985) with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting.
He is also an avid racquetball player, competing nationally and has won numerous state, regional and national championships over the years.
Mike Gilchrist – Operational and Financial Consultant
Mike Gilchrist has over 35 years of experience in several industries, including semiconductors, infomercials and the ready mixed concrete industires. He has risen through the financial ranks of these industries, starting as an analyst in cost accounting and budgeting, then on to Controller functions, and finally as a Vice President of Finance and Operations. He has been an adjunct professor in accounting and finance at the University of Phoenix, Arizona State University and Western International University. He has conducted workshops at several National Ready Mixed Concrete Association conventions, and has served on that association’s Business Administration Committee. He published an award-winning article on the creation of a fixed expense model for predictive use in forecasting.
Most of the past 35 years have been consumed in turnaround activities involving “fixing” problem companies. Creating measurement tools, and the “fixes” for problems highlighted by those tools, resulted in imaginative, out-of-the-box solutions to difficult business situations. Creating tools for use by operations personnel has been a major focus, including truck efficiency solutions, financing solutions, customer profitability measurement on a real-time basis, accelerating the billing process, and multi-acquisition integration to common financial and operations platforms. In every instance, all yielded positive cost savings results.
Mike graduated with an accounting degree from Brigham Young University and an MBA in finance from University of Southern California. He currently lives in Mesa, Arizona and loves the clean smell of the green grass on a golf course.
John D. McCulla III – Associate
John McCulla is an Associate at Allen-Villere Partners and joined the firm in 2018. He is a member of the Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors (AM&AA) and obtained his Certified Merger and Acquisition Advisor (CM&AA) credential in 2020. He serves on the Financial Performance Improvement Task Group of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) and the Performance Benchmarking Survey Group. John received a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University as well as a Master of Management in Energy from Tulane University. He spends his free time fly fishing the coastal marshes of Louisiana.
Shane J. Naccari – Vice President of Transactions
Shane Naccari is Vice President of Transactions at Allen-Villere Partners with over ten years experience in the Engineering and Construction Industry. He is a member of the Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors (AM&AA) and serves on the Government Affairs Committee of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA). Prior to joining Allen-Villere Partners in 2021, Shane was a licensed Professional Civil Engineer in the Heavy Civil Construction Industry as well as consulted for Private Equity in the Industrial Services Industry. Shane received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Louisiana State University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Tulane University. He spends his free time saltwater fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.