The Killingsworth Kouple reminisce on their business and life together, they dish out sage advice on business, life and relationships as well as incredibly funny stories of the early years in unlicensed pest control.

Jeremy Kreer opens up about his third-generation family pest control business. All seems on-track for future generations until Jeremy’s parents go through a divorce.

Before WIPFLI became a Top 20 accounting firm, Modern Pest Services CFO, Doug Stevenson, retained Cory Vargo to break a tie between two other tax advisor opinions. What started as a job well done for the Stevenson brothers, has led to Paul involving Cory on several multi-million dollar pest control M&A transactions.

Paul explains how Anticimex President & CEO Jarl Dahlfors focuses on internal benchmarking. Christmas comes early for Boardroom Buzz listeners as Paul gives away a standardized pest control chart of accounts.

Jim McHale led the family business, JP McHale Pest Management, into finishing at #32 on the PCT 100 before selling to Anticimex in 2019.

As the “protector of the branch manager”, Jarl decentralized Anticimex, established benchmarking protocol and has lead his highly-motivated team in building one of the largest pest control companies in the world.

Svein Olav left his career as a Swedish retail coffee chain COO, and chose to bring a pest control business back from the brink of bankruptcy.

It’s hard to pin down a single takeaway from Jeff Annis and Dena Thomas’s Advanced Services sustainable success.

As you can imagine, only a few people ever dream of or think about getting into pest control as a career. This entrepreneur definitely took a unique path for his world to collide with the pest industry.