Private Equity Advisors

Private Equity Advisors helps Private Equity sponsors review and operate platforms and add-on across a wide variety of industries including specialty manufacturing & distribution, professional services, retail, and other industries. Founder Eric Nowlin has supported 25+ combined platform / add on acquisitions which have achieved greater than 3X CoC returns, $3.5B+ in exit valuations and 25% ROI. He has 30+ Years of World-Class Distribution Leadership, leading over 10,000 North American based team members with two premier Fortune 500 companies. He served as a Senior Executive at W.W. Grainger and President of Grainger Canada, and in multiple Executive roles at Maytag Corporation. He currently invests and supports multiple Private Equity and Investment firms having served as an Interim CEO, Chairman, Board Member & Advisor for various private equity / venture capital backed businesses. Firms supported include Partners Group (Surewerx Board Member), Riverside Company (Chairman / Operating Partner Surewerx, Chairman / Operating Partner Momentum textiles), Dot Family Holdings / Svoboda Capital: (Reliable Parts, Appliance Parts Depot), The Riverside Company: (Arrowhead Engineered Parts - successful exit 2021), Parallel49 Private Equity: (BFG Supply & Questco PEO), Victory Park Capital / Highview Capital (American Plastics - successful exit 2022) and Iris.TV (online Video Programming platform). In addition, he does ongoing work for numerous Private Equity funds, working on specific private equity deals and due diligence, mostly in the distribution space. He also advises institutional investors and hedge funds on the industrial distribution market.