Team

Eleven people. Four of them will be in the room.

Every transaction is led from first conversation through closing by one of the four partners below. Nothing is handed to a junior team after the letter of intent is signed, and the person who tours your plant is the person who signs the wire instructions.

Partners

Investment committee

All four sit on the investment committee. A transaction requires three votes, and any one of them can stop a deal at any point before closing without explaining themselves to the others.

Daniel R. Sheridan

Managing Partner

Wharton MBA. Twelve years at Lincoln International and Madison Dearborn before founding the firm in 2014. Has led fourteen platform acquisitions.

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Rafael A. Duarte

Partner, Capital Formation

NYU Stern. Nine years at BlackRock across New York and São Paulo. Leads the investor network in North America and Latin America.

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Claire A. Donnelly

Partner, Transactions

Columbia Law. Eight years in the private equity group at Kirkland & Ellis. Responsible for structuring, diligence and documentation.

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Marcus Okafor

Partner, Origination

University of Michigan. Seven years at Harris Williams covering industrials. Owns the relationships with intermediaries across the Midwest and Southeast.

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Operating partners

The people who run the companies

Our operating partners are not advisors. Two of the three below have served as chief executive of a portfolio company after closing, and each holds a board seat today. When we say leadership is installed on day one, these are the people we mean.

Thomas W. Brennan

Operating Partner

Thirty-one years in industrial manufacturing, including eleven as president of a $400M coatings business. Chief executive of two Kestrel Ridge portfolio companies since 2018.

Angela Reyes

Operating Partner

Former chief operating officer of a national mechanical services platform, where she integrated fourteen acquisitions in six years. Leads our add-on integration work.

Erik Haugen

Operating Partner, Finance

Chief financial officer of three private equity-backed businesses. Builds the reporting and controls that most founder-owned companies have never needed until now.

Investment team

Diligence and portfolio support

Four professionals supporting underwriting, diligence coordination and quarterly reporting to investors.

Priya Whitfield

Principal

University of Chicago. Previously Baird. Leads underwriting on industrial services transactions.

Peter Lindqvist

Vice President

Northwestern. Previously William Blair. Focuses on add-on origination and integration modeling.

Sofia Bartone

Director, Investor Relations

Georgetown. Manages investor reporting, capital calls and distributions. Works in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Grace Nakamura

Associate

Indiana University. Previously Houlihan Lokey. Supports diligence and quality of earnings review.

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