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We want to keep it that way
Our Team
We are a group of over 20 operating executives, entrepreneurs, and experienced private equity firms and family offices. We have been deep in the trenches of operating growing businesses for decades, both as executives and while supporting many other CEOs we’ve invested in. Currently, we sit on the boards of dozens of small businesses across all major industries and sectors. If we pursue a transaction with you, we will look forward to meeting you and working with you.
Managing Partners
Shawn Hallam

Erick Hollenbaugh

General Partners

Kurt Leedy
Current: Managing Partner, Miramar Search Partners
Former: Bain & Co
MBA, The Wharton School

Sandro Mina
Current: Managing Partner, Relay Investments
Current Boards: 9
Former CEO, Cameraworld.com
MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Mark Sinatra
Current: CEO, Aspen HR
Current: Co-founder, ETA Equity
Former: CEO, Staff One, Inc.
MBA, The Wharton School

Kirk Riedinger
Current: Private Investor
Former: Co-CEO, Alta Colleges
MBA, Harvard Business School

Badge Stone
Current: Managing Director, WSC & Company
Former: CEO, Perimeter Security Systems
Former: President, Stone Pump & Trench
MBA, Harvard Business School

Blake Macleod
Current: Partner, Archipelago Capital Partners
Former: Founder & CEO, Waves Gear
Former: Founder & CEO, Kawartha Outdoor
MBA, Babson FW Olin

Jose Stella
Current: Co-CEO, QMC Telecom
Former: Co-founder, VIU Media
Current Boards: 3
MBA, University of Michigan

Rafael Somoza
Current: Co-CEO, QMC Telecom
Former: Co-founder, VIU Media
Current Boards: 1
MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Charbel Zreik
Current: Private Investor
Former: CEO, DCI - Design Communications
Former: McKinsey & Co
MBA, The Wharton School

Will Thorndike
Current: Founding Partner, Housatonic Partners
Current Boards: 7
Author, The Outsiders
MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Joe Niehaus
Current: Managing Partner, Housatonic Partners
Former: Private Equity Investor
Current Boards: 8
MBA, Harvard Business School

Blake Winchell
Current: Professor of Entrepreneurship, IE Business School, Madrid Spain
Former: Bain & Co
MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Tomas Bergstrand
Current: Private Investor
Former: Banking, US & Singapore
Current Boards: 3
MS, Finance, Columbia University

Carlos Saez
Current: Managing Director, The Operand Group
Former: Chief Investment Officer, Spot Trading
Current Boards: 4
MBA, Chicago Booth

Neal Jacobs
Current: Managing Partner, Maven Equity Partners
Former: Partner, Cambrian Capital & Bodri Capital
MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Macon Carroll
Current: Partner, WSC and Company
Former: VP Operations, Griffen Brothers Companies
MBA, UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School

Bill Egan
Current: General Partner, Alta Communications and Marion Equity Partners
Former: Chairman, National Venture Capital Association
Former: Board of Overseers of The Wharton School
MBA, The Wharton School

Mark Egan
Current, Managing Partner, Marion Equity Partners
Former, Polaris Venture Partners
MBA, The Wharton School

Matt Burr
Current: Managing Partner, Red Forest Capital
Former: Cambridge Associates
Current Boards: 3
BA, Harvard; MS Environmental Management, Duke University

Jaime Greene
Current: Co-founder, Hypopara Research Foundation
Former: Housatonic Partners
BA, Finance, The Wharton School

Matthew Zucker
Current: Co-founder, ETA Equity
Former: Chief Investment Officer at a family office
Former: KPMG
MBA, The Wharton School

