Coolray, Parker & Sons, and Abacus packaged together circa 2015

Around late 2015 Ken Haines combined his Coolray business with Paul Kelly's Parker and Sons and Alan O'Neill's Abacus (Houston), hired a banker, and presented the group to private equity.

“To jump ahead, around late 2015, a friend of mine, Paul Kelly, who owned a company called Parker and Sons, Alan O 'Neill at Abacus in Houston. We came together and packaged the business up.”

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