DALLAS The help-wanted sign is out at Coach America for a new CEO.

Fenway Partners, which purchased Coach America barely 10 months ago, is seeking a successor to Craig Lentzsch, who helped the investment firm of Kohlberg & Co. create Coach America, the nations largest tour-and-charter bus operator, exactly four years ago.

Lentzsch had been president and CEO of Greyhound Lines before its parent company, Laidlaw International, decided it wanted a different CEO to oversee a massive restructuring of the Greyhound route system.

Lentzsch left Greyhound in June 2003, and by November was busy merging more than two-dozen former Coach USA operating companies in the west and south central U.S. into what became Coach America. (Initially, the company was known as CUSA and K-BUS.)

Contacted by phone and e-mail, the 58-year-old Lentzsch said he has no plans to announce.

He remains a director of Coach America and is slated to become chairman of the American Bus Association in January 2009, if, as he says, the ABA board agrees.

Kohlberg sold Coach America early this year to Fenway Partners, a private equity firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Currently, Coach America is being led by a veteran business manager, Michael P. Haley, who holds the title of executive chairman. A spokeswoman for Fenway Partners said a search is under way to fill the position of president and CEO, the job held by Lentzsch.

Haley's history with Fenway partners goes back six years when he was hired to be president and CEO of a company owned by Fenway, MW Windows of Rocky Mount, Va., a manufacturer and distributor of windows and doors in the southeastern U.S.

Fenway Partners, which has been around since 1994, bought MW Windows in 1995 and sold it in 2003. Haley retired as chairman of MW two years ago.

Prior to going to work for Fenway and MW Windows, Haley ran two furniture companies -- American of Martinsville, a La-Z-Boy company, and Lowenstein Furniture Group.

Haley started his business career with a trucking company, and today sits on the board of Panther Expedited Services, a specialty heavy freight expediting company thats also owned by Fenway.

Since leaving MW Windows, he has worked with Fenway management teams to get the most out of the businesses they own and operate.

In addition to being on the board of Coach America and serving as vice chairman of the ABA, Lentzsch remains a member of the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission, a creation of the U.S. Department of Transportation thats studying the long-term financing of the nation's transportation infrastructure; a director of the Intermodal Transportation Institute, and chairman of the trustees of the Winston School, an institution in Dallas that specializes in teaching young people who have learning disabilities. He has resigned as a director of Gray Line Worldwide.