Peter Abruzzo serves as Chief Executive Officer and is one of the founders of WinCo Partners. He is a seasoned executive with over 35 years of experience in strategy, retail, and business growth. He began his career as CEO of Modern Tuxedo in 1979, expanding it from a single location into one of the nation’s highest-grossing formalwear companies. He later sold his formalwear business to May Company and became a Consultant to the Executive Team, helping to scale operations to 550 formalwear locations and 300 David’s Bridal stores. This led to the sale of May Company to Federated for $11B —the largest retail purchase in U.S. history at the time.

Following May’s sale, Abruzzo joined Men’s Wearhouse, leading double-digit annual growth and increasing revenue from $206M to $426M in three years. He also served as a Founding Board Member of Village Bank/Northwest Community Bank, significantly increasing share value before negotiating its sale to Wintrust in 2000.

Abruzzo later consulted in advertising and led a $25M Triple Play initiative for AT&T. In 2015, he became CEO of North America for ACS Clothing Group, transforming its brands into an integrated omnichannel platform. In 2017, he joined Occasion Brands and later served as President of Kleinfeld Bridal Party, growing ecommerce sales by 200% year over year.

In 2019, as President of Renew Smiles, he increased monthly revenue from $800K to $3.1M within three months, raised $80M in capital, and expanded the company to over 40 locations nationwide.

Outside of business, Abruzzo has been active in Thoroughbred racing since 1992. His horses competed in the Preakness Stakes (2002) and the Kentucky Derby (2006), and won the Kentucky Oaks in 2010.