Our private equity investment professionals come from a broad spectrum of investing, consulting and industry backgrounds. Our team is comprised of seasoned investors and operators with both entrepreneurial and institutional backgrounds who know and understand the regions, industries and cultures we invest in.
We invest our own capital in a wide range of industries, including both established and growth-oriented businesses throughout Canada. Our main goal is to create significant value by supporting great businesses with strategic insights, broad networks, and operational expertise to instigate transformation.
We take a highly active and hands-on approach to managing investments through operational involvement alongside existing management. In addition to ongoing operations, we remain significantly involved in major capital and investment decisions, and actively pursue incremental investment opportunities that our combined teams believe will be accretive to our core operations.
When we invest in a business, we focus on building it to last. Our staying power, drawn from our operational and financial expertise, helps our companies withstand market cycles and succeed in the long term. We and portfolio company management teams focus on the actions needed to produce attractive long-term results through fundamental value creation.
We uncover and create value by identifying great companies with untapped potential and by enhancing their performance through structuring optimal capital structures, aligning stakeholders’ interests, improving operational efficiency, expanding market presence and fostering innovation.
We are responsible through our long-term approach to building stronger and better companies for all involved stakeholders. We are committed to create value for existing management teams and employees, the communities in which we operate and for our long-term financial partners who altogether contribute to our success.