Gray Old Grads
Ventures

Welcome!

For Graduates, Families & Fans of All Five Service Academies
USMA · USNA · USAFA · USCGA · USMMA

Pete Hidalgo and Mike Harrington
West Point Class of 1982
Company H-3, Home of the Fighting Hamsters

Our West Point journey spanned from 1978 - 1982. We spent those four years together: in classes, as roommates for two of those four years, and as teammates on the Army Squash Team, where we built an unbreakable bond.

Our idea to start Gray Old Grads came during Army's victory over FAU on October 17, 2026.

We had a strong desire to work together and start a business that aligned with our passion for the service academies, the military and America!

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Unique Academy Themed Products & Consulting Services

About Gray Old Grads Ventures

Our mission is to provide products and services that alumni from all service academies, Veterans, and other patriotic Americans will treasure and value over their lifetimes!

We will also give back to the service academies by contributing a meaningful share of our profits to their alumni associations — the West Point Association of Graduates, the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, the U.S. Air Force Academy Association of Graduates, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association, and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association — and Folds of Honor.

Gray Old Grads will provide unique service academy and military themed products that are made in the USA and reflect our shared love of the academy, the military and America!

We will also provide Business Consulting Services based on our many years of experience building businesses, and helping leaders of other businesses achieve success!

Made in the USA

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Why Work With Us

Pete Hidalgo, Co-Founder and Co-CEO. Pete is a West Point graduate (Class of 1982) with a degree in Engineering and an MBA from Columbia Business School. After serving as an Army Captain in the Air Defense Artillery, he spent 15 years in telecommunications and IT with Verizon, Sprint, Tyco, and Ernst & Young, building and managing networks and data centers across the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia-Pacific. He then spent more than 10 years with Deloitte and Ernst & Young advising the C-level teams of Fortune 50 and 500 companies, and later served as CIO and COO of a private equity backed telecommunications company through a successful exit in 2019. Since then he has turned to entrepreneurship as Founder and President of PHJ Management and Co-Founder of PCS Pools, one of Tampa Bay's top custom pool builders. Connect with Pete on LinkedIn.

Mike, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Gray Old Grads Ventures, also has four decades of experience at the C Level, specializing in sales and marketing in the consumer goods area. Learn more about Mike on LinkedIn.

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