Craig Lentzsch

Craig Lentzsch Craig R. Lentzsch is a director of Dynamex, Inc., (DDMX) a publicly held provider of same day delivery and logistics services where he serves on the audit committee. He recently retired as the president and chief executive officer of Coach America Holdings, Inc., a private equity owned provider of ground transportation and travel services with 30 business units located in all the major cities in the southern half of the United States. Lentzsch led Greyhound Lines, Inc. from 1994 to 2003 as its president and chief executive officer. Greyhound, trading at the time on the American Stock Exchange, is the only nationwide provider of intercity bus transportation services. After completing a consensual restructuring in 1995, he led a turnaround that ultimately resulted in the 1999 acquisition of Greyhound by Laidlaw, Inc. He then assumed responsibility for Greyhound Canada and Laidlaw Public Transit as well. Combined revenues reached $1.2 billion with 16,000 employees. He previously served as vice chairman and executive vice president of Greyhound from 1987 to 1989. Prior to re-joining Greyhound, Lentzsch served from 1992 to 1994 as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Phoenix-based Motor Coach Industries International, Inc., the largest manufacturer of intercity coaches and transit buses in North America. At MCII, Lentzsch was responsible for all financial, accounting, investor relations, used bus sales, vendor finance and leasing functions. He led the IPO effort that listed Motor Coach on the NYSE and separated it from its parent, the Dial Corporation. He subsequently negotiated the sale of Motor Coach to Consorcio G Grupo Dina. In 1980 before Lentzsch’s first tenure at Greyhound, he co-founded BusLease, Inc., a finance company that served the motor coach industry. The company was merged with Greyhound in 1987 when Lentzsch and other Dallas investors acquired Greyhound from Dial Corporation. He previously served on the board of Hastings Entertainment, a multi-media retailer in small and medium sized markets in the western US, when it went public (serving on both the compensation and audit committees). He also served as CFO and a board member for Storehouse, Inc., an Atlanta-based, privately-held, retail chain selling contemporary furniture and on the board of Enginetech, Inc., an importer and distributor of automobile engine parts for the US aftermarket, which he co-founded. He was appointed by Congressional leadership to the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission and serves on the board of directors of the Intermodal Transportation Institute and the Board of Trustees (five years as chair) for The Winston School (which serves children with learning differences) in Dallas, Texas. He is also an advisory board member for Bulkley Capital L.P. and the Georgia Tech College of Sciences. He previously served as the Chairman of the board of the American Bus Association and on the boards of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, the American Highway Users Alliance, Gray Line Worldwide and Reconnecting America. Lentzsch, a leading advocate for creating coordinated, intermodal transportation systems that permit safe, ethical, efficient and sustainable transportation, has received awards from the Community Transportation Association of America and the National Conference of Black Mayors for his contributions to rural and urban transportation solutions. He has frequently spoken to national conferences on transportation funding and finance and on urban and rural transportation issues. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School with an MBA. He served as an officer in the U. S. Air Force. .

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