This custom cabinet and millwork business is a market leading manufacturer of custom commercial cabinetry and related architectural millwork. Founded over 20 years ago, the business manufactures and installs products for schools, churches, hospitals, offices, and other commercial renovation, and new build projects.
The company serves its general contractor customers from a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in the Upstate of South Carolina.
Merrell leads Viking Mergers and Acquisitions efforts in the Greenville/Spartanburg, Upstate South Carolina market. Merrell comes to Viking with previous experience as a senior operating executive, entrepreneur, and private equity investor. He has broad operating experience ranging from his leadership of a $70 million HVAC distribution business for Carrier Corporation (a division of United Technologies Corporation) to his successful role as CEO of a $15 million private regional waste hauling business. As a private equity investor, Merrell led majority investments several companies including an $85 million environmental services business and a $40 million apparel manufacturer.
Earlier in his career, Merrell held corporate development roles in two technology startups – both of which successfully grew from venture funded startups to large public companies.
Merrell has a BA in Economics from Hampden-Sydney College and an MBA Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY.
