Mark Gray
Mark Gray, the founder of Movers Search Group, proudly says that he is a product of the industry he now serves: Mark’s father Sam Gray was an industry veteran with Bekins and a few other well-known players in the business. Mark grew up playing in the warehouse. High school summers were first spent loading and unloading trucks, then as a local driver and upon graduation from college a brief career as a COD sales rep. After graduation from law school, Mark was a transportation attorney representing moving companies and general commodities carriers before the Interstate Commerce Commission.After the deregulation of the trucking industry, Mark became a transportation consultant. Eventually, his focus turned to the recruiting profession and, more specifically, recruitment for the industry he grew up in and loved: The Moving & Storage Industry. Mark has enjoyed his role as a “Mover Recruiter” for close to three decades.
Peter McCullough
Raven Research is an independent consulting firm specializing in the Moving industry, providing access to advisory services involved in buying or selling moving companies. Including business valuations, market research, strategic direction, mergers & acquisitions, and capital markets. They specialize in consulting to the moving industry and have clients in Canada and the USA.Their Principal consultant, Peter McCullough has over 25 years operational experience in multiple industries, including transportation, trucking, overseas shipping, household goods moving, as well as consumer goods & services. Peter has also bought and sold his own moving company, knowing first-hand the challenges involved in this unique industry.Peter has the practical experience in the underserviced niche of providing industry expertise, information and guidance on buying and selling moving companies. Peter has developed a program specific to the moving industry, that is extremely valuable and affordable to anyone in the marketplace .
Larry Kruger
Larry Kruger has been in the Canadian household goods moving business for over forty years. Starting as a COD rep. progressing to corporate sales, sales management, national sales trainer for Allied Van Lines, to managing director of their internation division and for twenty years a dedicated corporate account consultant with McWilliams Mayflower. Larry started his own consulting business “Customized Moving” in 2023. Over his career Larry has been the top award-winning national salesperson in COD sales, cross border sales, international sales and corporate account business. He has received the top national sales awards in all four of the major van lines, he has worked in. Larry is passionate about the moving industry and has gained a lot of visibility on LinkedIn and other platforms, with his “Pump the Brakes” videos and posts. He is always 100% pro mover, encouraging folks to stop and think about our industry and the value of the profession, always closing his videos with his tagline, “Hug a Mover”
