Company Overview
From TradeStay to TS Companies: Built for the Workforce That Builds America
We build the systems that protect, stabilize, and sustain the people delivering America’s most critical projects — the first integrated workforce infrastructure ecosystem of its kind.
Our Origin
It Started With a Room
TS Companies was born from a simple realization: America was investing billions in critical projects, but too little attention was being paid to the people traveling across the country to build them.
Founder Allison brought a civil engineering background and a career spent traveling the country, working with architects and engineers to improve building performance, reduce failures, and build more sustainably. Over time, she came to recognize that the greatest point of failure was not always the design itself. Too often, it was the way the construction workforce was supported—the conditions they lived in, the distance they traveled, and the instability they experienced while doing some of the country’s most demanding work.
As major construction began ramping up in Arizona, that realization became impossible to ignore. Skilled craft professionals were arriving from across the country and facing limited lodging, long commutes, constant moves, and few environments designed around the realities of their work.
When the opportunity arose to combine Allison’s understanding of the construction industry with Jorel’s background in hospitality, they saw a chance to do something meaningful in their own community: create a better way to support the people building it.
TradeStay was created to do exactly that.
What began as a workforce lodging solution grew into the broader vision for TS Companies: building the infrastructure that creates stability beyond the jobsite. Today, we develop lodging, technology, and adaptable workforce solutions designed around the demands of critical projects and the people who make them possible.
For Allison and Jorel, the mission is also personal. It is an opportunity to give back to the industries and communities that shaped their careers while improving the experience of the people doing the work.
Because when we take better care of the people building our communities, we build stronger projects and stronger communities in return.
Allison Sheppard — Chief Executive Officer
Civil engineering background with 12 years traveling the country teaching architects and engineers how to prevent building failures and design more sustainably. Allison founded TS Companies after recognizing that workforce sustainability was the missing piece.
Jorel Sheppard — Chief Operations Officer
Raised in a remote village in Northern Montana, Jorel worked his way through hospitality from prep cook to resort hotel hospitality specialist. He brings hands-on operational experience, service standards, and a fresh perspective on quality.
Andrew Alvis — Chief Administrative Officer
Finance and operations executive with expertise in FP&A, operational strategy, systems implementation, and organizational scaling. Trusted partner to founders and leadership teams, translating business strategy into disciplined execution that drives growth and operational efficiency.
Khaled Sethi — Chief Relations Officer for Unions and Labor
Economics background and former union crane operator who worked on major projects across the U.S. Khaled began as a TradeStay guest and now helps build the platform for the workforce he came from.
Kyle McCollum — Chief Financial Officer
Finance background with experience supporting family offices and public-company finance teams. Kyle brings financial structure, reporting discipline, and growth-stage finance experience to TS Companies.
Who We Are Today
One Integrated Group. Eight Service Lines. Zero Silos.
TS Companies is an integrated infrastructure group. Each service line stands on its own — and every one is designed to reinforce the others. That’s the difference between a vendor and an ecosystem.
Physical Infrastructure
- Housing
- Transportation
- Logisitcs
- Off-site workforce management
Human & Digital Support
- Technology platform
- Mental health support
- Financial education
- Community connection
Our Mission
Protecting, stabilizing, and sustaining the people who build America’s future.
Why It Matters
The Workforce Gap Is a National Infrastructure Risk
America’s most critical projects don’t fail for lack of capital or ambition. They fail when the workforce can’t be housed, moved, supported, and sustained at scale. Point solutions leave gaps — and gaps stall timelines, inflate costs, and put national priorities at risk.
An integrated ecosystem closes those gaps. For government agencies, major projects, and industries, TS Companies delivers a single, accountable partner that treats workforce stability as the infrastructure it truly is — engineered to deploy fast, operate at scale, and hold to rigorous standards.
Partner Organization
Introducing TradeStrong
TradeStrong is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization built on a simple truth: the people who build and protect our communities are expected to be strong, but they are not always given the support they need to sustain that strength.
Years spent alongside skilled tradespeople, union leaders, contractors, and traveling crews revealed a gap that had little to do with skill and everything to do with long-term stability, wellbeing, and support beyond the jobsite.
Through TradeStay, we saw firsthand that housing was only one part of the equation. What was missing was a stronger structure around the workforce itself.
TradeStrong was created to help build that structure.
TS Companies is proud to partner with TradeStrong, whose programs, tools, and resources directly support the workforce serving on America’s most critical infrastructure projects.
Because strength deserves support.
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Let’s Build the Infrastructure Behind the Workforce
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