Right Time Heating and Air Conditioning Appoints Steven Tsambalieros as Chief Executive Officer

TORONTO & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Right Time Heating and Air Conditioning (“Right Time” or the “Company”), Canada's leading independent home services provider, today announced that it has appointed Steven Tsambalieros as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Right Time is a portfolio company of Gryphon Investors (“Gryphon”), a leading middle-market private investment firm.

Mr. Tsambalieros brings more than three decades of executive leadership experience building and scaling customer-focused, multi-site service organizations across North America. He most recently served as President of Rentokil Initial’s Canadian Pest, Ambius and Steritech businesses, as well as two U.S. businesses, Vector Disease Control International and Solitude Lake Management.

Karl Fessenden, who has served as Interim CEO, will transition to the role of Executive Chairman and will work closely with Mr. Tsambalieros, the Executive Leadership Team, Gryphon, and the Board to support Right Time’s continued growth and long-term success.

“Having worked closely with Right Time’s teams over the past several months, I have seen firsthand the strength of this organization and the passion that drives it,” said Karl Fessenden, Executive Chairman of Right Time. “Steven brings the right combination of people-first leadership, operational discipline, and multi-site services experience to build on that foundation, and I am confident that he is the right executive to help lead Right Time during its next phase of growth.”

Steven Tsambalieros said, “I am honored to join Right Time and excited to partner with Karl, Gryphon, and all of our teams across the Company’s platform. Right Time is poised for strong growth and by continuing to put our employees first and maintaining an unwavering focus on customers, I am confident that we are strategically positioned to drive the business forward and ensure it reaches its full potential.”

Alex Earls, a Partner at Gryphon and Co-Head of its Business Services Group, stated that “Steven’s strong track record of successfully growing large, distributed service organizations makes him an ideal partner to accelerate Right Time’s growth across Canada.”

About Right Time

Right Time is the leading Canadian independent heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning ("HVAC") and plumbing contractor focused on the residential market. Right Time now operates out of 23 locations in Ontario, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, and provides preventative maintenance programs, repairs, and replacements of household HVAC units as well as residential plumbing repair and replacement services. For more information, please visit www.right-time.ca.

About Gryphon Investors

Gryphon Investors is a leading middle-market private investment firm focused on growing competitively-advantaged companies in the Business Services, Consumer, Healthcare, Industrial Growth, Software, and Technology Solutions & Services sectors. With more than $10 billion of assets under management, Gryphon's three core investment strategies include its Flagship, Heritage, and Junior Capital Funds. Gryphon prioritizes investments in which it can form strong partnerships with founders, owners, and management teams and generate enduring value through its integrated deal and operations business model. Gryphon's highly-differentiated model integrates its well-proven Operations Resources Group led by full-time senior operating executives and functional experts in artificial intelligence, capital markets, finance & accounting, human capital and information technology. To learn more, please visit www.gryphon-inv.com.