Mark GoodWASH Multifamily Laundry Systems, headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., has named Mark C. Good its new chief executive officer.

“With his focus on building operational excellence and producing results through process improvement, Mark Good’s leadership skills are a great fit for WASH during this exciting time of extraordinary expansion and deepening of enterprise capabilities,” said Doug Gilstrap, chairman of the company’s board of directors.

Additionally, Good’s demonstrated experience with successful mergers and acquisitions will enable new strategic partnership opportunities, continued territory expansion and potential extension into adjacent business lines.

“On behalf of the board and the company, it is my pleasure to welcome Mark to WASH,” Gilstrap added.

“I’m excited about this new opportunity,” Good said. “WASH is positioned to be a world-class leader in the multi-family service industry. I look forward to putting my decades of executive experience and hands-on operational know-how to work with the rest of the management team and the board, as we guide WASH during this historic, transformative phase of growth and development.”

Good is an accomplished senior executive with a proven track record of driving profitable growth in the consumer services and self-storage industries. Prior to joining WASH, he served as co-founder and CEO of Life Storage, LP, where he rapidly scaled growth of the company by leading acquisitions, organizational buildout and brand positioning, resulting in building the fourth-largest private owner/operator of self-storage facilities in the U.S. in just four years.

Before that, Good served as chief operating officer of Public Storage, the largest publicly traded self-storage company in the world. Prior to that, he was the executive vice president of Sears Holdings and the president of Sears Home Services, the largest home-related services organization in North America – which provides appliance sales, installation and aftermarket services to more than 22 million residential and commercial customers.

During his professional career, Good also has served on the boards of directors of Life Storage, Sears Canada Inc., A&E Factory Service (a joint venture between Sears and Whirlpool Corp.) and the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkley, as well as an MBA from San Francisco State University.

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