Total Safety U.S., Inc. CEO and leadership

Mr. Ristevski joined Total Safety in October 2017 and serves the company as Chief Executive Officer, President and a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Ristevski’s career spans over 30 years, most at Praxair, Inc. where he held leadership positions in both business management and finance. He was President of Praxair Distribution, Inc. and President of Praxair Healthcare Services. His financial career at Praxair included serving as its Vice President, Corporate Controller, Division Finance Director and Director, Financial Planning and Analysis. Following his career at Praxair, Mr. Ristevski served as President & Chief Operating Officer for Maxum Petroleum; Chief Operating Officer for The Brock Group and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at Animal Supply Company. Having completed more than 100 acquisitions and integrations, he was most recently an adviser to several private equity groups seeking acquisition prospects. Mr. Ristevski received an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Brown University.

Paul Tyree is a Chief Commercial Officer at Total Safety. He has worked as Chief Operating Officer at Total Safety.

Operational, Strategic and business partnership oriented CFO of multiple PE-backed companies with both private and public debt structures. Finance Executive with diversified global experience and leadership within finance, accounting, business development, and operations in manufacturing, services and financial services. Proven track record of making significant contributions to the company vision, strategy, and near term goals & objectives through advancing growth, profitability, driving change, leading teams, improving business efficiency and results. Classically trained General Electric Finance leader with a 14 year career in GE’s Finance organization. Skilled and mature leader driving results through building and leading exceptional finance organizations with clear, established goals and objectives.

- Global Finance operations in multiple roles(N. America, S. America, Europe, Asia)

- Growth/investment planning, Strategy development and execution

- Acquisitions, negotiations, due diligences, integrations, ERP implementations

- Debt Financing/Raising capital, Investor Relations, Private Equity portfolio company CFO

- Public Debt company CFO, Filing K's and Q's, S1/IPO/SEC process

- Leading, recruiting and building outstanding finance organizations

- Development of KPI's/Metrics driving accountability and improved performance

- Risk/compliance programs, SOX implementations

- Restructurings, cost, profit and cash flow improvement

- Lived in Europe for 8 years; fluent in Hungarian, conversational German, some French

Executive with extensive experience managing global and diverse technology organizations transforming and modernizing complex technology platforms to greatly improve the stability, resiliency, and security of applications and infrastructure. James has experience across multiple industries including Manufacturing, Rental and Distribution, Energy, Real Estate, and Oil and Gas and holds an MBA and Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and is a licensed CPA (Inactive).

Areas of Experience: IT-Business Strategy Alignment; Organization Design; M&A Due Diligence and Integrations; Global ERP Selection and Implementation; Analytics and Business Intelligence; Agile Application Development; Automation; Cyber Security; Negotiations and Vendor Management

Mr. Ristevski joined Total Safety in October 2017 and serves the company as Chief Executive Officer, President and a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Ristevski’s career spans over 30 years, most at Praxair, Inc. where he held leadership positions in both business management and finance. He was President of Praxair Distribution, Inc. and President of Praxair Healthcare Services. His financial career at Praxair included serving as its Vice President, Corporate Controller, Division Finance Director and Director, Financial Planning and Analysis. Following his career at Praxair, Mr. Ristevski served as President & Chief Operating Officer for Maxum Petroleum; Chief Operating Officer for The Brock Group and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at Animal Supply Company. Having completed more than 100 acquisitions and integrations, he was most recently an adviser to several private equity groups seeking acquisition prospects. Mr. Ristevski received an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Brown University.