Board-level advisory for growth-minded founders who want clarity, discipline, and a company that creates real enterprise value — not just revenue.
LP3 Business Advisors serves as your independent Board of Advisors.
We bring structured thinking to help you clarify your vision and strengthen leadership.
We provide an outside perspective to help you improve financial performance and increase enterprise value.
We drive accountability to help you reduce owner dependence and scale what matters.
Meetings become strategic, not reactive.
Leadership becomes accountable.
Numbers tell a story.
Growth becomes intentional.
Exit becomes an option, not a hope.
Mike Lee is a business owner, board-level advisor, and leadership coach with nearly three decades of experience building, leading, and advising growth-oriented companies.
As Owner and President of GRS Recruiting, Mike assumed leadership in the early 2000s and became an owner in 2006. Under his direction, the firm achieved more than 5x revenue growth while maintaining strong margins and a people-first culture. After transitioning from front-line production into full-time leadership, his focus has centered on organizational design, financial stewardship, leadership development, compensation architecture, and long-term succession planning.
Mike has served on advisory boards across manufacturing, home services, fitness, and technology businesses, participating in companies from early-stage formation through growth, scale, and successful exit. He has also been an active member and chapter leader within Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) since 2007, contributing to peer advisory, leadership development, and global learning communities. He brings the perspective of a true operator who has carried full P&L responsibility, navigated economic cycles, allocated capital, and developed leaders over decades.
Through LP3 Business Advisors, Mike works alongside owner/operators as a strategic partner, board-level advisor, and coach. He helps growth-minded owners gain clarity around their long-term vision, install disciplined operating rhythms, strengthen leadership teams, and build companies that generate both sustainable cash flow and long-term optionality. His philosophy is simple: a business should be a vehicle to build the life you want, not something that quietly takes it from you.
Mike is a Board Certified Coach trained in the Intentional Change Theory (ICT) model and is especially skilled in building high-performing sales teams and developing leaders who drive both revenue and culture.
He lives in Munson Township, Ohio, with his wife Alison, whom he has been married to since 1999. They have four grown daughters. A lifelong athlete who played collegiate hockey, Mike competes in national age-level tennis tournaments and is deeply committed to fitness, health, and longevity. He enjoys boating and gathering with family and friends at the family’s lake home on Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland.
Dave Payne is an entrepreneur and board leader known for building high-growth companies and strengthening mission-driven organizations across the Midwest. A mechanical engineering graduate of The Ohio State University and alumnus of MIT’s Entrepreneurs Master’s Program, he has spent more than two decades launching, scaling, and advising businesses.
He currently owns five companies, including Payne & Tompkins Design-Renovations and Mission Custom Cabinets. Under his leadership, Payne & Tompkins grew eightfold in revenue in eight years, with his ventures averaging more than 30% annual growth. Over the course of his career, he has founded nine companies, exited four, and helped guide several organizations through successful business turnarounds.
Alongside his entrepreneurial work, Dave has been deeply engaged in nonprofit leadership. He served nine years on the board of Home Builders Association of Greater Cleveland, including as President, and later chaired both Make-A-Wish Northern Ohio and Make-A-Wish Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana. He currently serves as Board Chair of Notre Dame Schools and was a founding member and Vice Chair of Olivia’s Dream.
His leadership has earned recognition from Crain’s Cleveland Business, including 40 Under 40 and Notable Nonprofit Board Leaders, as well as the Medical Mutual Pillar Award for community service. His company has also been named one of Crain’s Ohio Best Places to Work, ranking #3 in 2023, #2 in 2024 and #2 in 2025 among companies with fewer than 250 employees.
He is also a Certified Coach through Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, where he continues to mentor leaders and entrepreneurs focused on building organizations that scale with purpose.
Outside of business and board service, Dave can most often be found outdoors. An avid adventurer, he enjoys spending time in the mountains, on the water, and anywhere that offers fresh air and a new challenge. Above all, he values time with his family, who remain the foundation and inspiration behind his work and leadership.
Pat Pitrone is an award-winning founder, operator, and business advisor with more than 20 years of experience building, scaling, and professionalizing home-services and franchise businesses. He is best known for turning founder-led companies into scalable, systematized, enterprise-value assets.
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Pat joined his family’s business, USA Insulation of Cleveland, in 2004 and quickly helped double revenue within two years. As a second-generation owner and Co-Founder of USA Insulation Franchise Corporation and FDI Enterprises, he played a central role in transforming a regional insulation contractor into a vertically integrated national franchise platform.
Beginning in 2008, Pat led the company’s franchising strategy and national expansion. In 2015, he strengthened the company’s competitive moat by acquiring its long-time proprietary foam supplier and relocating manufacturing operations from New York to Cleveland, creating tighter quality control, better margins, and supply chain independence. Under his leadership, the system scaled to 60+ franchise locations across 20+ states, becoming the largest residential retrofit insulation company in the U.S. at the time.
In December 2020, the USA Insulation companies were acquired by The Riverside Company and folded into Threshold Brands, a multi-brand home services franchise platform. Pat remained on post-transaction as President of USA Insulation and was later promoted to Group President of Threshold Brands, where he supported 11 portfolio brands. In that role, he worked across leadership teams on growth strategy, franchising, operations, M&A integration, KPI dashboards, and organizational development — helping founders and operators transition from entrepreneurial execution to professional management systems.
Today, Pat advises founders, operators, and investors through his firm, PJP Business Advisors, serving as a fractional operating partner and board-level advisor to home services, trades, and franchise businesses. His work focuses on:
Known for his pragmatic, operator-first approach, Pat brings real-world experience — not theory — helping businesses move from “working hard” to “working on the right things.”
He lives in the Cleveland area with his wife and two sons and remains deeply involved in entrepreneurship communities, mentoring founders and leadership teams.
Michael Palubiak is an entrepreneur, board member, and advisor with 25 years of experience building and scaling businesses. As Founder of Perfect Power Wash, he grew the company into the nation’s largest residential power washing brand before a majority private equity sale in 2021. He remains a Board Member and retains an ownership stake, providing strategic leadership and oversight.
He is also the Founder and Board Member of Standing Rock Farms and Standing Rock Management, where he focuses on long-term value creation, operational excellence, and leadership development across multiple ventures. Michael specializes in helping founder-led companies build strong teams, clear accountability, and scalable systems that drive sustainable growth beyond owner dependence.
Michael studied business management at Kent State University and is a longtime member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. He is a graduate of the MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program, has served on the board of the Power Washers of North America, and was nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Outside of business, he is an avid outdoorsman, committed family man, and active philanthropist focused on building a legacy that extends beyond financial success.