AMC believes it is a trusted partner to founders, families and management teams seeking an institutional capital partner to facilitate a transition of ownership and/or provide capital for growth.
AMC has a strategic relationship with A&M, providing access to ~4,000 operating executives and functional experts across virtually every industry, geography and business function.
We believe our combination of resources gives us the ability to move quickly and with great conviction in pursuit of investment opportunities.
Headquartered in Greenwich, CT with offices in San Francisco, CA and London, England, we leverage A&M’s global capabilities in 55 offices across 25 countries.
Dedicated pools of capital for each strategy allow us to structure bespoke transactions designed to meet sellers’ objectives.
AMC believes it is a trusted partner to founders, families and management teams seeking an institutional capital partner to facilitate a transition of ownership and/or provide capital for growth.
AMC has a strategic relationship with A&M, providing access to ~4,000 operating executives and functional experts across virtually every industry, geography and business function.
We believe our combination of resources gives us the ability to move quickly and with great conviction in pursuit of investment opportunities.
Headquartered in Greenwich, CT with offices in San Francisco, CA and London, England. We leverage A&M’s global capabilities in 55 offices across 25 countries.
Dedicated pools of capital for each strategy allow us to structure bespoke transactions designed to meet sellers’ objectives.
A&M Capital Partners (“AMCP”), with assets under management of approximately $1.8 billion, is AMC’s flagship investment strategy focused on middle-market control transactions in North America. Since the inception of this strategy, we have invested in over 30 companies across 11 platforms.
Learn MoreA&M Capital Opportunities (“AMCO”), with assets under management of approximately $500 million, is AMC’s lower middle-market growth strategy, focused on shared control and structured minority equity investments in North America. AMCO partners with business owners and management teams to help recapitalize and grow businesses, leveraging deep operational capabilities and industry relationships to position them for accelerated long-term growth.
Learn MoreA&M Capital Europe (“AMCE”), is a dedicated European middle-market investment fund with €650 million of assets under management. AMCE’s team has over 125 years of European investing and industry experience and speaks 9 European languages. AMCE has deep operating capabilities and industry relationships to support its sourcing, due diligence and portfolio monitoring activities, that leverages A&M Consulting’s ~1000 operating professionals across 19 European offices.
Learn MoreA&M Capital Partners (“AMCP”), with assets under management of approximately $1.8 billion, is AMC’s flagship investment strategy focused on middle-market control transactions in North America. Since the inception of this strategy, we have invested in over 30 companies across 11 platforms.
Learn moreA&M Capital Opportunities (“AMCO”), with assets under management of approximately $500 million, is AMC’s lower middle-market growth strategy, focused on shared control and structured minority equity investments in North America. AMCO partners with business owners and management teams to help recapitalize and grow businesses, leveraging deep operational capabilities and industry relationships to position them for accelerated long-term growth.
Learn moreA&M Capital Europe (“AMCE”), is a dedicated European middle-market investment fund with €650 million of assets under management. AMCE’s team has over 125 years of European investing and industry experience and speaks 9 European languages. In addition, AMCE has deep operating capabilities and industry relationships to support its sourcing, due diligence and portfolio monitoring activities, that leverages A&M Consulting’s ~1000 operating professionals across 19 European offices.
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Mike Odrich is a Managing Partner and Founder of A&M Capital. Previously, Mr. Odrich was a Managing Director and the Head of the Private Equity business of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. He built, managed and controlled investment oversight of an alternative investment business with 38 different investment strategies and six asset classes, which invested in excess of $20 billion since 2000.
Mr. Odrich served as the senior private equity member of the Lehman Brothers Investment Committee and screening committees for the six asset classes of private equity. He is a former director of RTI Biologics, Inc. and Firth Rixon Ltd. He is a trustee of the Brunswick school.
He was formerly a director of Gabriel Brothers, Inc., PureStar Linen Group, Centerra Services, LLC and is currently a director of ettain group, GS Foods Group, WHC Energy Services, LLC, CNSI, PatientCare EMS Solutions, Talus Payments and Pritchard Brady Holdings.
Mr. Odrich holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Columbia University.
Jack McCarthy is a Managing Partner and Founder of A&M Capital. Previously, Jack was a Managing Director and National Practice Leader of Alvarez & Marsal’s Private Equity Advisory Group, which serves both private equity sponsors and certain strategic investors. From 2008-2010 Mr. McCarthy served on assignment as Head of Principal Investments & Private Equity for Lehman Brothers Holdings with overall responsibility for the estate’s private equity partnerships, direct equity investments and stakes in third party private equity / hedge funds, in total amounting to nearly $20 billion in invested capital.
From 1996-2005, Mr. McCarthy was a Partner and member of the founding team and investment committee of BA Capital Partners Europe (BACPE), Bank of America’s European focused middle market private equity partnership. His primary responsibilities included originating, assessing, executing and managing mid-cap buyout and growth capital investments across the European marketplace. While with BACPE, he led deal teams on investments in Germany, Spain, Sweden, France, Hungary and the UK. Prior to joining BACPE, Mr. McCarthy was with BA Securities, Inc. (1993-1995) and Continental Bank (1991-1993), where he focused on corporate finance advisory and equity/debt capital raising mandates.
He was formerly a director of PureStar Linen Group and Centerra Services, LLC and a board member of ProAmpac and is currently a director of CNSI, GS Foods Group and Pritchard Industries.
Mr. McCarthy holds an MBA, with concentrations in finance and international business, from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business and a BA in finance and accounting from Central Michigan University.
Before joining A&M Capital, Mark was a Managing Director & Partner with H.I.G. Capital, a €35 billion global private equity fund. Mark headed H.I.G.’s LBO office in Chicago and was a founding member of H.I.G. Europe.
Prior to H.I.G., Mark was the COO of Brakes Group, Europe’s largest foodservice company, and CEO of Pauley’s Foods.
Previously, he was with Bain & Company’s private equity group in San Francisco and London. Mark began his career with the Smurfit Kappa Group in Dublin, Ireland.
Mark is currently a director of Bollé Brands and La Patria.
Mark is an Irish national and holds an MBA Degree from Harvard University and received a BSc (Hons.) and an MA from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Mark speaks English and French and has substantial board level experience in France, Benelux, Italy, Ireland and the UK.
Paul S. Lattanzio is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of AMCO. Mr. Lattanzio has over 30 years of industry experience and more than 25 years of middle-market private equity experience. Over the course of his career, Mr. Lattanzio has founded, built and managed several affiliated middle-market private equity investment vehicles. During that time he has completed over 40 investments representing more than $700 million dollars of invested capital.
Prior to helping establish AMCO, from April 2010 through January 2015, Mr. Lattanzio was President of Star Avenue Capital, a middle-market private equity firm. Star Avenue is a joint venture between Creative Artist Agency and Irving Place Capital focused on making growth equity investments in branded consumer and retail businesses. While Mr. Lattanzio is no longer involved with the management of Star Avenue Capital, he remains on the Board of Maximum Human Performance and IT’SUGAR, two of its portfolio companies. From 2003 through 2009, Mr. Lattanzio founded, built and managed Bear Growth Capital Partners (“BGCP”), an affiliate of Bear Stearns. BGCP managed approximately $375 million of proprietary firm capital across two platforms, primarily focused on investments in middle-market growth equity transactions across a variety of consumer, services, industrial and healthcare sectors.
Mr. Lattanzio started his career and spent 13 years at Bankers Trust. The early years were focused on various investment banking disciplines including Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets and Restructuring Advisory. The later and majority of the years at Bankers Trust were spent as a senior partner in BT Investment Partners, an affiliated middle-market private equity effort.
Mr. Lattanzio has also served, or is serving, on the Boards of Directors or Advisory Boards of Insperity Inc. (NYSE: NSP), Insight Communications, River City Broadcasting, L.P., Rapala, Inc., United USN, US Broadcast Group, Genesis Teleserv Corporation, General Communications, Inc., Medical Logistics, Inc., Clintrak Pharmaceutical Services, LLC, Harlem Furniture, Inc., Avid Health, Inc., Chef’s Warehouse Holdings, LLC, New Chapter, Inc., Everything But Water, LLC, Francesca’s Collections, Inc., Crestcom Holdings, LLC and J Brand, Inc.
Mr. Lattanzio earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics with Honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.
Shepard (“Colie”) Spink Jr. is a Managing Partner and Co-Head of A&M Capital Europe. He has over 17 years of experience in European private equity deal sourcing, transaction execution and portfolio company value creation.
Prior to joining AMCE, Mr. Spink was with Alvarez & Marsal (“A&M”) Europe since 2005 and led the firm’s European private equity advisory business for over a decade. In 2009, Mr. Spink launched A&M’s Private Equity Services (“PES”) business in Europe – a new, dedicated unit providing private equity investors with transaction support, operational improvement and interim management services. Under Mr. Spink’s leadership, PES has become one of the fastest growing and most profitable business within A&M Europe. Mr. Spink has led over 40 different transactions or performance improvement cases for private equity investors across Europe. From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Spink served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Restructuring Officer of Galvex (an A&M client), Europe’s largest independent steel galvanizing business which had been acquired by Silverpoint Capital Partners. Mr. Spink and the A&M team led a comprehensive operational and financial restructuring of the business, creating more than €20 million incremental EBITDA, and helped Silverpoint successfully sell the company to ArcelorMittal.
From 2000 until 2005, Mr. Spink worked with BA Capital Partners Europe, the private equity arm of Bank of America, initially as founding CEO of one of their portfolio companies, and subsequently as an operating and origination partner for the fund. Mr. Spink moved to London from Prague in 1995 to join Bank of America, where he served as Managing Director and head of Investment Banking for European Emerging Markets. Prior to Bank of America, Mr. Spink served in various management positions with Macy’s in New York, as well as in various entrepreneurial engagements in Central & Eastern Europe.
Mr. Spink earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Mr. Spink is a U.S. citizen and has resided in the UK for over 22 years. Mr. Spink serves as a Trustee of the Cartoon Museum, and as founding co-Chair of merit based Jefferson Scholarship program (UK region) for the University of Virginia.
Drew A. Baird is a Partner and Co-Founder of AMCO. Mr. Baird has over 15 years of industry experience and more than 11 years of experience in making middle-market growth equity investments in partnership with entrepreneurs across the healthcare, consumer, retail, business services and industrial sectors. While serving as an active member of several boards, Mr. Baird has worked closely with many management teams on budgeting, performance improvement, recruitment, integration and expansion efforts. Over his career Mr. Baird has worked on 13 transactions that have accounted for approximately $250 million of invested capital.
Prior to helping establish AMCO, Mr. Baird was a Principal of Star Avenue Capital, a middle-market private equity firm. Star Avenue is a joint venture between Creative Artist Agency and Irving Place Capital focused on making growth equity investments in branded consumer and retail businesses. Previously, Mr. Baird served as a Senior Associate of BGCP, an affiliate of Bear Stearns. Prior to getting his MBA, Mr. Baird served as a Vice President for Wachovia Capital Partners (since renamed Pamlico Capital) where he focused on growth equity investments in the healthcare sector. Mr. Baird began his career as an Analyst in Merrill Lynch’s Technology Investment Banking Group.
Mr. Baird formerly served as a Director of Surgical Alliance, LLC and is currently a Director of Maximum Human Performance, LLC and an Official Observer to the Board of Directors of IT’SUGAR, LLC.
Mr. Baird holds an MBA, with concentrations in Finance and Decision Sciences, from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management and a BS in International Business and Finance from The Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of the Schreyer Honors College.
Tom Clayton is a Partner of A&M Capital focusing on the healthcare industry. Mr. Clayton brings more than 20 years of private equity experience investing in healthcare companies. Other areas of industry focus have included media, telecom, energy services and energy technology.
Mr. Clayton’s investment experience spans the entire healthcare industry including services, clinical products, outsourcing, distribution and information technology. He has experience investing across the capital structure and in various transaction types including buyouts, growth capital, highly structured transactions, and venture capital. Areas of particular focus have included hospitals, post-acute care, management services organizations, DME, specialty distribution, medical devices, pharmaceutical manufacturer and service providers, and healthcare information technology.
Mr. Clayton started his career at Morgan Stanley’s Princes Gate Fund, a $1.6 billion private equity fund where he focused predominantly on minority investments and structured financings in the healthcare, energy, media and telecommunications sectors.
Mr. Clayton is currently a director of PatientCare EMS Solutions.
Mr. Clayton received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Juris Doctorate from The Yale Law School.
Sean Epps has over 25 years of private equity experience working with growth oriented middle market companies. Throughout his career, Sean has focused on making investments in a number of industrial and business services sectors including specialty distribution, industrial services and niche manufacturing sectors. Prior to joining AMCO, Sean was a partner at Snow Phipps, where he worked from 2005 through 2017 and was a principal with J.P. Morgan Partners from 1999 to 2005. Earlier in his career, Sean was an associate with Paribas Principal Partners and an analyst with Chase Manhattan’s Merchant Banking Group. He has served on the boards of directors of over a dozen companies over the course of his career, including Electric Guard Dog, Kele, Service Champ, ArrMaz Custom Chemicals, Chromalox, Brand Scaffolding and Stauber Performance Ingredients, and currently serves on the board of directors of Flow Control Group.
In 1991, Sean graduated cum laude with a BA from Hamilton College with honors in economics and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.
Robert Haisch is a Partner with A&M Capital. Since 2004, Mr. Haisch has led or co-led the execution of numerous middle-market transactions across a variety of structures, including leveraged buyouts, mergers, leveraged recapitalizations and growth equity investments. His primary areas of industry focus have included business services, transportation and logistics, consumer products and services and healthcare services.
From 2008 to 2014, Mr. Haisch was a Principal with Charterhouse Equity Partners, a private equity firm with a focus on leveraged buyout investments in the middle-market. Prior to joining Charterhouse, Mr. Haisch was a Senior Associate at North Castle Partners from 2004 to 2008, where he was involved in the sourcing, evaluation, execution and monitoring of leveraged buyout transactions across a variety of industries. He began his career in the Syndicated and Leveraged Finance Investment Banking group of J.P. Morgan Securities.
Mr. Haisch is currently a director of Talus Payments and PatientCare EMS Solutions.
Mr. Haisch holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University.
George K. Kollitides is a Partner of AMCO. Mr. Kollitides has 23 years of transaction, strategy and operations experience investing in private, structured equity and debt of middle-market companies experiencing growth, ownership changes, consolidation, or other catalysts requiring capital and sophisticated partners in the government and business services, consumer and retail, telecom and media, and industrial and aerospace sectors. An experienced executive, he has served as Chairman, Lead Director or Director on public, private and non-profit boards, including as a member or Chairman of Compensation and Audit Committees.
Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. Kollitides was the Founder and Managing Principal of Aegis Capital Advisors, a merchant bank that invests in and advises middle market companies experiencing rapid growth, market or operational dynamics, consolidation or ownership changes. Previously, Mr. Kollitides was Chairman and CEO of the Remington Outdoor Company, a platform developed by acquiring over twenty companies going through founder or organizational transitions and rapid growth. Prior to Remington, Mr. Kollitides was a Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management, one of the world’s largest investment managers, where he focused on investing in private, structured equity and debt of middle-market companies experiencing growth, ownership changes, consolidation, or operational dynamics.
Mr. Kollitides joined Cerberus from TenX Capital Management, a merchant bank he co-founded that invested in middle-market companies undergoing ownership transitions, operational challenges or other catalysts. Prior to co-founding TenX, he was a Principal at Catterton Partners, a large consumer and retail-focused private equity fund, where he invested in growth equity, recapitalizations, and acquisitions. Mr. Kollitides started his career at GE, where he helped to form GE Equity. Mr. Kollitides was a Six Sigma trained Analyst and Associate in GE’s Corporate Finance and Restructuring groups where he worked on the origination of middle-market leveraged loans and the restructuring of seven leveraged buyouts.
Mr. Kollitides is currently Director of Intelligent Decisions, a leading IT Solutions provider to the civilian, defense and intelligence communities, a Director of Tier1 Group, a leading provider of training to the law enforcement, defense and intelligence communities, and a Director and Chairman of the Compensation Committee of adMarketplace, the largest search advertiser behind Google, and YahooBing.
Mr. Kollitides holds an MBA in Finance and Management of Organizations from Columbia Business School and a BA in Economics with a Minor in Government and Law from Lafayette College.
Alex Nivelle is a Partner with A&M Capital. Previously, Mr. Nivelle was an analyst at Warburg Pincus, a New York-based private equity fund, where he focused on investments in the business services, media and technology sectors. Prior to that, Mr. Nivelle worked for DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, also a New York-based private equity fund, where he focused on executing leveraged buyouts across a range of industries. He began his career as an analyst in the Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking group of Credit Suisse First Boston.
Mr. Nivelle was formerly a director of Gabriel Brothers, Inc. and Centerra Services, LLC, and a board observer of ProAmpac and is currently a director of ettain group and CNSI.
Mr. Nivelle holds an AB in politics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Joachim was a Senior Partner with BC Partners LLP, a €17 billion private equity fund which has completed 99 transactions with total enterprise value of €121 billion in Europe and North America. At BC Partners, Joachim was head of the Nordic region and co-head of TMT in Europe, co-led several investments, and served as Chairman and Director on numerous boards.
Prior to BC Partners, Joachim was part of the European team of Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, the private equity arm of Morgan Stanley, evaluating growth and LBO investments across Europe. Previously, Mr. Ogland worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in Oslo, advising clients in TMT and financial services on strategy and organizational improvements.
Joachim is currently a director of Bollé Brands and La Patria.
Joachim is a Norwegian national and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor in Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Joachim speaks Norwegian and German and has substantial board level experience in the Nordics, UK and Spain.
David Perskie is a Partner of A&M Capital. Since 1997, Mr. Perskie has led or co-led the execution of numerous middle-market transactions across a variety of structures, including leveraged buyouts, mergers, public-to-private acquisitions, leveraged recapitalizations and growth equity investments. His primary areas of industry focus have included business services, industrial manufacturing, consumer products and services, and energy services.
Prior to joining A&M Capital in 2011, Mr. Perskie was a Principal with PCG Capital Partners, a private equity firm with $1.0 billion of assets under management with a focus on late-stage growth equity investments in the middle-market. Before that, Mr. Perskie was a Vice President in the Consumer & Retail Group at Gryphon Investors from 2001 to 2007, where he was involved in the sourcing, evaluation, execution and monitoring of leveraged buyout transactions in a variety of industries within the consumer sector. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Perskie was an Associate at American Industrial Partners, where he evaluated leveraged buyout opportunities within the industrial manufacturing landscape. Mr. Perskie began his career at Interlaken Capital (now Atlas Holdings), where he executed growth equity and leveraged buyout investments across multiple industries.
Mr. Perskie was formerly a director of Gabriel Brothers, Inc. and PureStar Linen Group and is currently a director of WHC Energy Services, LLC, Talus Payments and Pritchard Brady Holdings.
Mr. Perskie received a Bachelor of Science in Economics, cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Clayton S. Cole is a Principal of AMCO. Mr. Cole has over 10 years of industry experience and more than eight years of investing in lower middle-market private businesses. During Mr. Cole’s career in advisory, principal investing, and strategic support for portfolio companies, he has worked on transactions totaling over $1 billion of enterprise value. Mr. Cole has partnered with founders and management teams to collaborate on acquisitions, growth initiatives, balance sheet optimization, and financial planning across a range of industries, including: business and technology enable services, healthcare services, industrial, manufacturing, and consumer.
Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. Cole was a Principal that focused on control and minority investments in growth oriented businesses at General Catalyst Partners, an investment firm with over $3.8 billion in asset under management. While at General Catalyst, Mr. Cole served as a Director of CLEAResult Consulting, an energy efficiency services organization, and observer for Envoy Global, a global workforce management platform that provides immigration support services.
Before joining General Catalyst, Mr. Cole spent three years as an Associate at H.I.G. Capital, a $750 million middle-lower market-market private equity fund that specialized in levered majority recapitalizations. Mr. Cole started his career at Stephens Inc. as an Analyst in the Investment Banking Group.
Mr. Cole received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering with a minor in General Business from the University of Arkansas.
Adam Fuchs is a Principal of A&M Capital Partners. Previously, Mr. Fuchs was a Vice President at KPS Capital Partners, a New York based private equity firm, where he focused on investing in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. Prior to that, he worked in Huron Consulting’s Restructuring & Turnaround Group. Mr. Fuchs graduated from Miami University with a BS in Accounting from the Farmer School of Business.
Mr. Fuchs is currently a director of Pritchard Brady Holdings.
Before joining A&M Capital Europe, Charles was a Principal with CCMP Capital in London, a $5 billion global private equity fund. Charles was based in London and focused on pan-European investments.
Prior to CCMP, Charles was an Associate at Merrill Lynch’s investment banking team in Paris, France.
In aggregate, Charles has 15 years private equity investing and investment banking experience.
Charles is currently a director of Bollé Brands and La Patria.
Charles is a French national and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin (magna cum laude).
Charles speaks English and French and has substantial board-level experience in Germany, Spain, France and the UK.
Nathan A. Myers is a Principal of AMCO. Mr. Myers has 18 years of investing, advisory, financing and operating experience, including 14 years experience working with growth-oriented middle-market companies across the healthcare industry. Over the course of his career, he has worked closely with many management teams in pursuing their growth objectives in various roles and recently served as an executive in an operating company. He has worked on 13 growth equity transactions that have accounted for approximately $200 million of invested capital, advisory assignments accounting for approximately $5 billion in enterprise value, and equity and debt financings accounting for approximately $3 billion in capital raised.
Most recently, Mr. Myers served as a Managing Director of Medical Properties Trust, Inc., a publicly-traded healthcare REIT. In this role, he was part of the Acquisitions team, which focused on originating investment opportunities in general acute and specialty hospitals, and was recently involved in the $900 million buyout of a leading for-profit hospital operator. Previously, Mr. Myers served as Vice President of Strategic Payor Initiatives at DaVita HealthCare Partners, a Fortune 250 healthcare services company. Working on the managed care team, his primary responsibilities included strategy, business development, and contracting. Additionally, he was a member of the senior leadership team of the integrated care management division and responsible for leading the non-government programs.
Mr. Myers began his career at Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co, an M&A boutique, and spent 13 years with successor firms (First Union, Wachovia, and Wells Fargo) ultimately serving as a Director in the M&A department. Previously, he was a member of the private equity department serving as Vice President of Wachovia Capital Partners (since renamed Pamlico Capital), where he focused on growth equity investments in the healthcare industry. Mr. Myers served as a Director of Surgical Alliance, LLC.
Mr. Myers holds a BA in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, from Washington and Lee University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Vineet Varma is a Senior Vice President with A&M Capital, and is based in the firm’s San Francisco office.
Vineet was previously with Industrial Growth Partners (IGP), a middle-market private equity firm based in San Francisco. At IGP, Vineet helped source, execute and manage numerous platform and add-on investments in the industrials and industrial services sectors. Vineet began his career at Citigroup as an investment banking analyst in the firm’s Diversified Industrials division.
Vineet holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, where he was a Regents Scholar, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Andrea Biernat is a Vice President of A&M Capital Partners.
Previously, Ms. Biernat was at Greenbriar Equity, a private equity fund based in Rye, New York, where she focused on investments in the transportation and industrial sectors. Prior to that, Ms. Biernat was an investment banking analyst at J.P. Morgan in the Diversified Industries Group, where she executed a number of industrial and transportation related M&A and financing transactions.
Ms. Biernat is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Jerome Fisher Management & Technology Program, where she received a BS from the Wharton School and a BAS from the School of Engineering & Applied Science.
Ms. Biernat is currently a director of CNSI and PatientCare EMS Solutions.
Before joining A&M Capital Europe, Paolo was an Associate Director with Temasek in London and focused on pan-European investments across a range of sectors, including consumer, technology and business services.
Prior to Temasek, Paolo was an Associate at Change Capital, a mid-market specialist consumer and retail investor. Prior to that, Paolo was an analyst in Citigroup TMT investment banking division.
Paolo has 9 years private equity investing and investment banking experience.
Paolo is currently a director of La Patria.
Paolo is Italian and holds a CEMS Master International Management jointly issued by Bocconi university and the Rotterdam School of Management.
Paolo speaks English and Italian and has board-level experience in Italy, France and the UK.
Kenneth Lee is a Vice President at AMCO. Mr. Lee has approximately seven years of industry experience, including four years in middle-market private equity investing. Mr. Lee has worked across a range of industries, including: industrials, manufacturing, business services and healthcare services.
Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. Lee was an Associate at Nautic Partners, a middle-market private equity firm with over $4.2 billion in assets managed that focused on making investments in growing and differentiated companies in the manufacturing, industrials, business services and healthcare industries. While there, he participated in the execution of four platform acquisitions. Mr. Lee began his career as an analyst in the Diversified Industrials group at Macquarie Capital.
Mr. Lee received a Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, in Finance and General Accounting from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.
Todd Rubin is a Vice President of A&M Capital Partners.
Previously, Mr. Rubin worked at Trilantic Capital Partners, a New York-based middle market private equity firm, where he focused on the consumer, business services and industrial sectors. Prior to that, he worked at Barclays Capital in the Investment Banking Division’s Global Industrials group.
Mr. Rubin is currently a director of ettain group.
Mr. Rubin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics from the Wharton School.
Alex Sacripanti joined A&M Capital Partners in May 2018 and is based in the firm’s Greenwich office. He was previously with Credit Suisse Securities in their Leveraged Finance Origination group where he was responsible for the underwriting and execution of syndicated bank loan, high yield and private placement financings across sponsor led LBO, M&A and general corporate transactions. Prior to that, Alex was an Investment Analyst at GAMCO Investors focused on special situation opportunities. He began his career as an Analyst in the Restructuring group at Lazard.
Alex received his BA in Economics from Connecticut College and his MBA from Cornell University.
Aaron W. Darr is a Senior Associate of AMCO. Most recently, Mr. Darr worked for two years as an investment banking analyst in the Leveraged Finance & Financial Sponsors Group at Macquarie Capital where he specialized in middle-market leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and other debt financings across numerous industries.
Mr. Darr received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Economics, Magna Cum Laude, from Colgate University in 2014.
Adam Gottlieb is an Associate of A&M Capital Partners.
Previously, Mr. Gottlieb worked at Perella Weinberg Partners as a generalist in the M&A and Restructuring groups.
Mr. Gottlieb graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Industrial & Labor Relations.
J. Robert Heflin, is a Senior Associate at AMCO. Mr. Heflin has over five years of industry experience, including over three years in middle-market private equity investing. Mr. Heflin has worked across a range of industries, including: healthcare services, transportation & logistics, business services and industrials.
Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. Heflin was an Associate at The Jordan Company, a middle-market private equity firm with over $11.0 billion in assets managed with a generalist investment mandate that focused on supporting strong management teams over long hold periods and creating value through add-on acquisitions and identifying operational inefficiencies. Mr. Heflin began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Healthcare Group at Deutsche Bank.
Mr. Heflin received a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in History from Amherst College.
David Malton is a Senior Associate of A&M Capital Partners.
Previously, David was at Arlington Capital, a private equity fund based in Washington, D.C. where he focused on investments in the industrial, healthcare, and business services sectors. Prior to that, David was an investment banking analyst in Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Financial Sponsors Group in New York, where he executed numerous transactions for the bank’s financial sponsor clients including leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, equity offerings and debt financings.
David graduated magna cum laude with honors from The University of Georgia where he received a BBA in Finance and a minor in Biology.
Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Jan was an Associate at Stirling Square Capital Partners in London where he focused on pan-European investments across various sectors, including industrials, business services and healthcare.
Before Stirling Square Capital Partners, Jan was an Associate at Better Capital, a distressed private equity fund based in London focusing on operational turnaround investments in a range of sectors, including aerospace, industrials and business services.
Jan is German and holds a Masters in Management (Distinction) from London Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Mannheim.
Prior to joining A&M Capital, Emilien was an Analyst in the Healthcare Group at Barclays Investment Bank. During his time at Barclays, he worked on the execution of various M&A and financing transactions with a focus on healthcare services.
Emilien is a French national and graduated from McGill University with a BCom, followed by a Master’s degree in finance from HEC Paris.
Prior to joining A&M Capital, Thibault was a Senior Consultant at Roland Berger based in their Brussels office. Thibault was a member of Roland Berger’s Benelux Private Equity team where he worked on a number of engagements across the industrials & manufacturing and transportation sectors.
Thibault is a Belgian national and holds a Master of Science in Business Engineering (magna cum laude) from the Catholic University of Leuven.
Thibault is proficient in Dutch, French and English.
David Leight is an Associate of A&M Capital Partners.
Previously, Mr. Leight worked at Guggenheim Securities in the Technology, Media and Telecom Group where he focused on M&A transactions.
Mr. Leight graduated with distinction from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He concentrated in Finance and received a BBA.
Daniel Lisowski is an Associate at AMCO. Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. Lisowski was an Investment Banking Associate in the Global Power, Energy & Infrastructure Group at Lazard. While at Lazard, Mr. Lisowski advised clients on a variety of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, restructurings and capital raises. Mr. Lisowski began his career as an analyst in the Global Industrials Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Mr. Lisowski received a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting from the College of Business and Economics at Lehigh University in 2014.
Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Vishal was an Associate at CapVest Partners in London where he focused on pan-European investments across the consumer, healthcare and business services sectors.
Before CapVest Partners, Vishal was an Analyst at Houlihan Lokey, where he worked on a number of mid-market M&A and financing transactions across various sectors, including consumer, TMT and financial services.
Vishal is a British national and holds a Bachelor of Science (1st Class Honours) from the London School of Economics.
Tommy McThenia is an Associate at AMCO. Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. McThenia was an Associate at MSouth Equity Partners, an Atlanta based private equity firm with over $2 billion in assets. While at MSouth, Mr. McThenia worked on an investment mandate focused on partnering with leading management teams in the Southeast to create shareholder value via operating performance improvements. Mr. McThenia began his career as an M&A Analyst in the Consumer Group at Harris Williams in Richmond, Virginia.
Mr. McThenia received a Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics, Cum Laude, from Washington and Lee University in 2015.
Jimmy O’Brien is an Associate of A&M Capital Partners.
Previously, Mr. O’Brien worked in the Leveraged Finance group at Jefferies, where he focused on structuring and executing leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and other debt financings across a range of industries.
Mr. O’Brien graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a BA in Political Science.
Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Mr. Rodríguez was an Investment Banking Analyst in Citigroup’s Global Industrials and Iberia teams, where he executed a number of M&A and capital markets transactions.
Mr. Rodríguez is a Spanish national and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from ESADE Business School. Mr. Rodríguez speaks English, Spanish, and Catalan.
Michael P. Thomas, joined AMCO as an Associate in April of 2019.
Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. Thomas was an Investment Banking Associate in the Technology, Media & Telecom Group at Deutsche Bank. While at Deutsche Bank, Mr. Thomas has advised clients on a variety of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and equity and debt financings.
Mr. Thomas received a Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, in Psychology with a minor in Economics and a Markets & Management Studies Certificate from Duke University in 2016.
Lucas Zheng is an Associate of A&M Capital Partners.
Previously, Mr. Zheng worked at Barclays in the Technology and Global Industrials groups where he advised clients on a variety of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and debt financings.
Mr. Zheng graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Economics and a minor in Business Institutions.
Michael Bardorf is Chief Financial Officer of A&M Capital, responsible for the day-to-day operations of the firm, as well as fund accounting, compliance and investor relations. Previously, Mr. Bardorf was Chief Financial Officer at Enhanced Equity Funds, a New York based private-equity firm focused on lower-middle-market growth companies in the healthcare industry. Prior to that, Mr. Bardorf was Controller at American Securities, a leading middle-market private equity firm based in New York and Controller at FLAG Capital Management, a Connecticut-based venture capital, private equity and real assets fund-of-funds. Mr. Bardorf began his career at Ernst & Young.
Mr. Bardorf holds a BS in Accounting from Fairfield University.
Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Philip was a Manager at Coller Capital, a leading Secondaries Private Equity firm. Whilst at Coller Capital, Philip managed the day-to-day finance operations of Coller Capital’s active funds and was also responsible for structuring financing facilities.
Before joining Coller Capital, Philip was an auditor in the Investment Management division of PwC, London. Philip was responsible for auditing a range of private equity, venture capital and mutual funds.
Philip holds a BSc in Economics and Politics from Queen Mary, University of London, and an ACA from the ICAEW.
Matthew Fliesser is the Controller of A&M Capital.
Previously, Mr. Fliesser was the Assistant Controller at Commonfund Capital Inc., a private equity and venture capital asset manager specializing in fund of fund investments, co-investments, and secondary investments. Prior to that, Mr. Fliesser was an Assurance Senior Associate in PwC’s alternative investment group where he audited hedge funds and private equity funds.
Mr. Fliesser holds a BSBA in Accounting from Western New England University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Barbara Gould is the General Counsel and CCO of A&M Capital. Previously, Ms. Gould was the General Counsel of multiple leveraged finance platforms within GE Capital, including GE Capital Lending, GE Sponsor Finance, and GE Equity. From 1993- 2016, she held a series of legal positions within GE Capital. Ms. Gould has 30+ years of corporate finance, private equity, and securities law experience.
Ms. Gould began her career in NYC at Shearman & Sterling, a global corporate law firm, where she focused on workouts, restructurings, and complex commercial and securities litigation.
She holds a BA in Political Science from Colgate University, and a JD from St. John’s University School of law. She is admitted to practice law in New York and is an Authorized House Counsel in Connecticut.
Scott Richter is a Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations at A&M Capital. Since 1997, Mr. Richter has held senior private equity marketing positions and been responsible for all aspects of marketing private equity partnerships to institutional investors including public and corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, foundations & endowments, fund of funds, family offices and high net-worth individuals. During this time, Mr. Richter’s senior leadership roles were with Ashton Stewart & Co, Barclays, Lehman Brother / Neuberger Berman, Atlantic-Pacific Capital, Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan, PaineWebber and BancBoston Robertson Stephens. Prior to marketing private equity partnerships, Mr. Richter was with Pacific Corporate Group (1994 to 1997), a leading private equity consultant, where he was responsible for direct, co-investments and limited partnership investing. He was the lead consultant on the California Public Employees’ Retirement System account. Mr. Richter was also a corporate banking officer at Bank of Nova Scotia and began his career as a consultant/auditor at Ernst & Young.
Mr. Richter is a Certified Public Accountant. He holds an MBA, double major in Finance and International Business, from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Science and Economics with an emphasis in Accounting from St. Mary’s College of California.
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Bollé Brands is a global platform of leading eyewear & protection brands that operates two segments: Consumer Brands and Industrial Safety. Consumer Brands is a branded supplier of sunglasses, ski goggles and ski & bicycle helmets under longstanding Bollé, Cébé and Serengeti brands; Industrial Safety is a premium supplier of high performance protective eyewear to industrial end markets. Bollé Brands is headquartered in France.
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Brady has been pioneering the way products and solutions are delivered to facility and foodservice professionals for more than 70 years. At the heart of Brady’s operation is a community-minded culture driven by a workforce of more than 350 employees currently in 15 locations throughout Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico, Colorado, Maryland, California and Texas including its Las Vegas, Nevada headquarters.
Brady’s approach to partnership is unique by providing integrated customer support, expertise, technical support, and service across a full spectrum of customer needs including extensive facility offerings, complete dish machine and laundry machine service, equipment sales, rentals and service and foodservice supplies. Brady provides these specialized solutions for customers in key commercial market segments including hospitality, education, healthcare, government, building service contractors and more.
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A market leading provider of outsourced security services, fire, EMS and facilities management services to permanent critical infrastructure assets of the U.S. Government.
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Champion ONE is a leading designer, marketer, and distributor of carrier grade optical transceivers and related mission critical components to telecommunications, cable, data center, and enterprise customers in North America and International markets. Founded in 1991, the company is headquartered in Beachwood, OH.
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Founded in 2000 and based in Jessup, MD with multiple distribution facilities in the US, Classic Brands is a designer, importer, and distributor of innovative specialty sleep products, sleep accessories, and furniture. The Company operates as a total-solution supply chain partner by providing full product life cycle support from development through warehousing and fulfillment to leasing brick-and-mortar retailers and digital commerce platforms.
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CNSI is a provider of health information technology (IT) enterprise solutions and customizable products to a diverse base of federal and state agencies. CNSI builds and manages innovative and cost-effective solutions that help clients achieve their mission, enhance business performance and improve the health for over 30 million Americans.
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Founded in 1999, Crash Champions is a leading Chicago-based collision repair chain with formal direct repair program relationships with leading national insurance carriers.
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Founded in 1967 and based in Oostburg, WI with a satellite manufacturing facility in Sherrill, NY, Dutchland Plastics is a contract/custom manufacturer of rotationally-molded plastic products. The Company focuses on producing customized products where they can be a value-added “sticky” partner through secondary operations including design, engineering, foaming, graphics, packaging and drop shipping capabilities, among others.
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ettain group is a leading talent solutions firm that delivers Recruitment Services and Managed Services in three practice areas: IT, Healthcare IT, and Digital Creative. From discovery to execution, the Company helps its clients successfully design, develop, and deliver critical technology and business initiatives, from providing individual resources, to staffing and managing critical programs and projects, to running entire recruitment processes. Founded in 1996, with nearly 3,500 employees and consultants currently at work, ettain group offers opportunities across North America with 25 offices located in 17 key markets. More information on ettain group can be found on the Company’s website.
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Flow Control Group is a leading distributor of high-value flow control and fluid handling products & services targeting growing end markets throughout the United States and Canada. The Company is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.
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Founded in 2006, and based in Seattle, WA, Frontier Derm Partners is the largest dermatology practice in the Pacific Northwest, with 43 locations throughout Oregon and Washington. The company providers dermatology and ancillary services, including: (i) general dermatology, (ii) surgery and Mohs, (iii) cosmetics, (iv) pathology / laboratory and (v) other services (allergy, vein, minor aesthetic procedure).
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Founded in 1961, Gabes is a proven specialty retail chain operating approximately 100 deep discount stores in 11 states across the Mid-Atlantic and Eastern seaboard regions. The company operates two store formats: Gabriel Brothers stores and Rugged Wearhouse stores. The stores offer well-known brands in apparel, accessories, footwear and home goods at prices that are typically 70% below prices at department stores and 30% – 40% below off-price competitors. Gabes targets secondary and tertiary markets in primarily suburban and rural locations with favorable rents.
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GS Foods Group is a leading specialized food distributor primarily serving the K-12 schools and corrections markets, and was created through the merger of Gold Star Foods and Good Source Solutions. GS Foods tailors its sales and marketing programs to ensure that more K-12 school students and other customers have access to healthy and cost-effective meals each day. The combined company has a national footprint with substantial market presence across the United States, serving over 8,000 customers nationwide.
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Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Wilmington, DE, Iron Hill is a polished casual restaurant and craft brewery chain. The Company focuses on handcrafting their award-winning beer and food from scratch using only fresh, high quality ingredients. Iron Hill is a customer-focused enterprise whose motto is “Inspire Loyalty” and for the past two decades, the Company has delivered on that promise in the communities they serve.
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La Patria is a leading Italian alarm and security surveillance provider. Founded in 1950, La Patria is a best-in-class operator which differentiates itself through its high value-add tech enabled alarm monitoring service, combined with rapid response manned patrolling intervention. La Patria provides B2B and B2C security solutions to more than 12,000 clients across a wide range of end-markets throughout Italy.
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PatientCare EMS Solutions is a leading provider of ground-based 911 emergency ambulance and other critical healthcare logistics solutions. The Company currently manages a portfolio of exclusive, long-term contracts across the United States.
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Pritchard Industries is a leading provider of facilities services, delivering a wide-range of janitorial and specialty services to approximately 300 million square feet of commercial office buildings, education and government facilities, sports/entertainment venues, medical complexes and industrial facilities. Formed in 1986, Pritchard is headquartered in New York, NY, with operations across the United States. Pritchard employs a world class team of 10,000 union, non-union and seasonal employees, which have helped achieve uninterrupted organic growth since inception. The Company’s business segments include commercial janitorial services, sports and entertainment venue facilities services, metal and marble cleaning and restoration services, and building engineering and maintenance services. More information on Pritchard can be found on the Company’s website.
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Prolamina is a full-service supplier of technology-driven, innovative, flexible packaging. With multiple manufacturing facilities in North America, Prolamina is dedicated to providing solutions to specific packaging needs. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Prolamina Corporation has a strategic geographical footprint and enhanced product offering.
Ampac is a diversified global packaging company with 13 manufacturing centers in North America, Europe and Asia. Ampac’s comprehensive approach to packaging is a balance of rigorous, technology-driven thinking and exceptional creativity. Ampac’s range of adhesive lamination, rotogravure printing capabilities and innovative packaging solutions is highly complementary to Prolamina’s cost advantageous extrusion lamination and flexographic printing technology.
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PureStar is the holding company for 4 leading commercial laundry businesses focusing on the hospitality sector. Operating under the Brady Linen, United Laundry, AC Linen and Royal Hospitality Services trade names, the company operates facilities across North America, including leading market positions in Las Vegas, Honolulu, Boston, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Connecticut, the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico.
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Talus is a leading provider of payment-processing services to small and mid-sized merchants. Talus was formed through the simultaneous acquisition and merger of a well-established independent sales organization with a proven payments processing platform.
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A leading construction contractor that specializes in managing mid-to-long range pipeline projects, primarily for natural gas, as well as construction and maintenance of related facilities.
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