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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
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Current: Managing Partner, Miramar Search Partners
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Former: Bain & Co
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MBA, The Wharton School
Sandro Mina
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Current: Managing Partner, Relay Investments
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Current Boards: 9
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Former CEO, Cameraworld.com
MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Mark Sinatra
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Current: CEO, Aspen HR
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Current: Co-founder, ETA Equity
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Former: CEO, Staff One, Inc.
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MBA, The Wharton School
Kirk Riedinger
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Current: Private Investor​
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Former: Co-CEO, Alta Colleges
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MBA, Harvard Business School
Badge Stone
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Current: Managing Director, WSC & Company
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Former: CEO, Perimeter Security Systems
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Former: President, Stone Pump & Trench
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MBA, Harvard Business School
Blake Macleod
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Current: Partner, Archipelago Capital Partners
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Former: Founder & CEO, Waves Gear
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Former: Founder & CEO, Kawartha Outdoor
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MBA, Babson FW Olin
Jose Stella
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Current: Co-CEO, QMC Telecom
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Former: Co-founder, VIU Media
Current Boards: 3
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MBA, University of Michigan
Rafael Somoza
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Current: Co-CEO, QMC Telecom
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Former: Co-founder, VIU Media
Current Boards: 1
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MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Charbel Zreik
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Current: Private Investor​
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Former: CEO, DCI - Design Communications
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Former: McKinsey & Co
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MBA, The Wharton School
Will Thorndike
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Current: Founding Partner, Housatonic Partners
Current Boards: 7
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Author, The Outsiders
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MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Joe Niehaus
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Current: Managing Partner, Housatonic Partners
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Former: Private Equity Investor
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Current Boards: 8
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MBA, Harvard Business School
Blake Winchell
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Current: Professor of Entrepreneurship, IE Business School, Madrid Spain
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Former: Bain & Co
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MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Tomas Bergstrand
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Current: Private Investor​
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Former: Banking, US & Singapore
Current Boards: 3
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MS, Finance, Columbia University
Carlos Saez
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Current: Managing Director, The Operand Group
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Former: Chief Investment Officer, Spot Trading
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Current Boards: 4
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MBA, Chicago Booth
Neal Jacobs
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Current: Managing Partner, Maven Equity Partners
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Former: Partner, Cambrian Capital & Bodri Capital
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MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Macon Carroll
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Current: Partner, WSC and Company
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Former: VP Operations, Griffen Brothers Companies
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MBA, UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School
Bill Egan
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Current: General Partner, Alta Communications and Marion Equity Partners
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Former: Chairman, National Venture Capital Association
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Former: Board of Overseers of The Wharton School
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MBA, The Wharton School
Mark Egan
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Current, Managing Partner, Marion Equity Partners
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Former, Polaris Venture Partners
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MBA, The Wharton School
Matt Burr
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Current: Managing Partner, Red Forest Capital
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Former: Cambridge Associates
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Current Boards: 3
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BA, Harvard; MS Environmental Management, Duke University
Jaime Greene
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Current: Co-founder, Hypopara Research Foundation
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Former: Housatonic Partners
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BA, Finance, The Wharton School
Matthew Zucker
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Current: Co-founder, ETA Equity
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Former: Chief Investment Officer at a family office
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Former: KPMG
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MBA, The Wharton School