The MVExpo.com team works like a well-oiled machine. Diversity of expertise is one of our greatest strengths, and we aim continually to expand our knowledgebase, contributor pool, industry partners, and active readership. In fact, we want you to be part of us — consider MVExpo.com your partner in success! Frequent MVExpo.com contributors include:

Luke, who loves brainspawning business ideas, is the MVExpo.com tech guru. Our increasingly visible online presence results from his strategic efforts and sweaty brow. His attention to detail is never in question: he even cleans the wheels of his wife’s diesel New Beetle with a toothbrush! He’s assisted carwash operators with setup and maintenance of business technology solutions and security systems. Luke also has experience helping carwash owners and manufacturers market themselves online. Luke represents our fine neighbors to the North, and he claims the Vancouver Canucks as his team. Code is poetry, eh, Luke? Or is poetry code? Email him at luke@mvexpo.com.

Being a sometime Gulf Coast resident and a true blue Chevy Blazer drivin’ American, Josh, the initial underwriter of MVExpo.com, proudly cheers for the New Orleans Saints. Since the early days of the Internet Revolution, Josh has also been a maverick and enterprising investor, and so far his personal winning streak is (mostly) unbroken. He is perpetually reinventing himself and has recently developed a hankering fondness for bricks-and-mortar ventures. As Josh researches his own foray into carwash ownership, he’s agreed to post his discoveries and experiences here. Josh believes that everyone benefits from a thriving community of investors, operators, and equipment distributors. Email him at josh@mvexpo.com.

A lifetime Saint Louis Cardinals fan, Dave serves as MVExpo.com’s voice on carwash financing. You might call him our main adviser or Head Coach, even if he’s much too modest to accept such status-laden titles. Much of Dave’s professional life has been spent as a bank president, and he brings over three decades of financing experience to MVExpo.com. These days he often focuses on assisting clients of carwash equipment distributors with funding acquisition. If there’s a marketable carwash business idea, he can help find money to realize a dream. He’s also been operating and helping run local carwashes for the past several years, and throughout his life on the Great Plains, Dave’s owned many cars — mostly, as a family man, for practical reasons — but there was that one beauty: It was fast and he was young, and where did it go, where did it go? We’ll try to make sure he remembers to share all his best info at MVExpo.com. Email him at dave@mvexpo.com.

With more than 20 years’ experience in television, print publications and radio (including play-by-play for over 2500 live sports’ broadcasts), Shawn is the marketing dynamo for MVExpo.com. Shawn, officially our Director of Marketing, also has prior experience working for carwash operators and has even composed original advertising jingles! He may well be your first point of contact with us and would love to visit with any hungry MVExpo.com advertiser by phone or e-mail or at an industry tradeshow. No one leaves a conversation with Shawn without smiling. We also can’t forget to mention that Shawn’s favorite pro team is the Kansas City Chiefs, and in his free time — when not fishing or quail hunting or otherwise making his wife and kids happy — he’s often cheering on some team he loves.  Email him at shawn@mvexpo.com.

Erin, MVExpo.com’s female voice, considers herself something like a lucky hood ornament around here. She has a way with words, though, and is completing a Ph.D. in English to prove it. Not only is she MVExpo.com’s editor-in-chief, but she’s also an expert researcher who enjoys vetting her husband Luke’s sometimes harebrained business ideas. A fervent devotion to cleanliness and her admirable handling of a certain silver New Beetle encourage her interest in carwashing. She contributes to MVExpo.com by collecting industry resources and will do her best so you find everything you need at our site. Email her at erin@mvexpo.com.