Ken Alston is the Founder and President of A-One Janitorial LLC, a Newport Beach–based workforce logistics company operating across more than 30 markets in 10 states. He pioneered the fully self-performing workforce model in commercial facility services.
His operating philosophy, SAL™ — Service as Logistics, replaces subcontracted labor with trained W-2 workforce systems designed for accountability, compliance, and scale in mission-critical environments. The model reflects principles found in the efficiency wage theory of Nobel laureate Robert Solow — which demonstrated that above-market wage systems produce higher productivity and lower turnover — and the dual-sector labor model of Nobel laureate Sir W. Arthur Lewis, whose research showed how moving workers from informal low-productivity sectors into formal high-productivity systems drives long-term economic growth.
Prior to founding A-One Janitorial LLC, Ken co-founded Eventide Risk Management, one of the most successful companies formed through the search fund model. He holds degrees from Columbia University and Southern Methodist University.
Ken is a member of CoreNet Global and the Urban Land Institute, organizations that bring together corporate real estate leaders, developers, and institutional property owners.
Recent media coverage of A-One Janitorial LLC can be found in Media & Recognition.
