Ken Alston | Newport Beach
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. The company is known for pioneering the fully self-performing W-2 workforce model in commercial facility services.
Alston developed SAL™ — Service as Logistics — a workforce operating system that replaces subcontracted labor with trained W-2 teams designed for accountability, compliance, and scalability in mission-critical environments.
The model reflects principles found in the efficiency wage theory of Nobel laureate Robert Solow, which demonstrates that above-market wage systems produce higher productivity and lower turnover, as well as 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, Alston co-founded Eventide Risk Management, one of the most successful companies formed through the entrepreneurial search fund model.
He holds degrees from Columbia University and Southern Methodist University and 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.
