Executive Team

Jim Barber is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Vestis, and a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Barber joined Vestis in June 2025.

Mr. Barber previously held various leadership positions over the course of a distinguished 35-year career at UPS, where he most recently served as Chief Operating Officer and was responsible for overseeing a highly complex, global route-based delivery network. He began his career at UPS as a delivery driver and held several roles of increasing leadership responsibility, including President of UPS International and President of UPS Europe.

Mr. Barber previously served on the boards of C.H. Robinson and US Foods as well as UNICEF USA and the Folks Center for International Business at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business.

Kelly Janzen is the Executive Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer of Vestis. Ms. Janzen joined Vestis in February 2025 to serve as Chief Financial Officer.

Prior to joining Vestis, Ms. Janzen served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BlueLinx Corporation (NYSE: BXC) from March 2020 to August 2023.

In addition to her experience at BlueLinx, Ms. Janzen has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of WestRock (NYSE: WRK) from August 2017 to March 2020, Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Baker Hughes (NYSE: BKR) from September 2016 to July 2017 and Vice President Finance and Chief Accounting Officer of McDermott International (formerly NASDAQ: MDR) from December 2014 to August 2016.

Prior to that, Ms. Janzen served in progressive leadership roles in finance and accounting for over 10 years at General Electric.

Bill Seward is the Executive Vice President and the Chief Operating Officer of Vestis. Mr. Seward joined Vestis in September 2024 to serve as Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to joining Vestis, Mr. Seward was the President of UPS Supply Chain Solutions, where he oversaw multiple business units, including global logistics, freight forwarding, warehousing, and distribution. Before returning to UPS in 2019, Mr. Seward served as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer for Stericycle, Inc. In previous roles at UPS, he was responsible for the UPS Americas Region, global customer solutions, international package customs brokerage, global healthcare sales, and global revenue operations. Mr. Seward was also President of UPS International Sales and Vice President of Business Development for UPS Europe, based in Brussels.

Additionally, Mr. Seward has been an Alex de Tocqueville Society member of the United Way and has served on the Board of Directors for Hands on Atlanta and the German American Chamber of Commerce.

Butch Bouchard is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary. Mr. Bouchard joined Vestis in February 2025 to serve as Chief Legal Officer.

Mr. Bouchard has over 30 years of experience in legal and operational leadership roles, including 17 years as a public company General Counsel. From January 2008 to January 2025, Mr. Bouchard served as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, as well as in various compliance and risk management roles for Team, Inc. (NYSE: TISI), a global provider of specialty industrial services. Additional roles served included Executive Vice President, Administration, and Secretary.

Prior to Team, Inc., Mr. Bouchard held progressive leadership roles in legal, regulatory, compliance, human resources, and operations at Southern Union Company, a publicly traded, international natural gas utility, transmission, liquified natural gas and energy resources company.

Grant Shih will serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Vestis. Mr. Shih joined Aramark Uniform Services in January 2023 as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.

Mr. Shih has more than 24 years of technology and value-creation experience in various leadership roles. Prior to joining Aramark, Mr. Shih served as Chief Information Officer for National DCP from March 2020 to January 2023, where he managed all technology related areas, as Chief Information Officer of Encompass Digital Media, Inc.

From January 2019 to March 2020, and as Vice President, Technology Services for Carter’s/OshKosh B’gosh from June 2013 to January 2019.