Evolution Strategy Partners is a differentiated, principled private equity firm with a unique approach to conducting business.We consider our portfolio companies as true partners, not merely investments. Evolution values and respects the people with whom we work and believes its value-added involvement is only beginning at the time a transaction closes. We stay engaged and empower company leaders to accelerate the maximum potential of their businesses.Evolution's' primary focus is on entrepreneur-owned businesses but we remain flexible to explore other opportunities where our knowledge and interests are aligned. We typically target industrial and commercial service businesses with under $75 million in revenue and select only a handful of new platform opportunities to pursue each year.

Sentry Safety Solutions is a technology-driven safety services provider dedicated to delivering top-tier safety across industries like refining, petrochemical, power, manufacturing, midstream, and utilities. With a focus on integrating advanced technology into safety solutions, Sentry offers a comprehensive range of services, ensuring enhanced protection our clients.

Amped Electric specializes in providing exceptional electrical services for both residential and commercial clients in the Greater Charleston and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina areas. Their team of licensed and highly skilled technicians are dedicated to delivering best-in-class solutions which are tailored to meet the unique needs of each project of any scale. From simple repairs to complex installations, Amped is committed to ensuring safety, efficiency and outstanding satisfaction with every assignment. With a combined 40 years of proven experience, Amped is well-positioned to illuminate with excellence.

DiPonio Contracting is a leading Midwest-based infrastructure maintenance and construction firm. The Company provides both new but predominantly replacement and/or upgrades to aging and existing water, wastewater, and storm sewer systems. The veteran team supports municipal, county and state customers as the primary Contractors across their state. Evolution partnered with the team in June 2022.

Allied Underground tackles complex infrastructure projects for clients across Central Texas. Its team of managers, superintendents, and skilled laborers focus on underground water, wastewater, and storm sewer construction. Customers are balanced across commercial, educational, and multi-family contractors with greenfield, addition, and rehab projects. The Company is well known for its expertise on meeting the needs of complex, fast track projects, with long-term repeat and referral-based customers.

Chairman of the Board for Westco (www.westcogrounds.com). Westco, founded in 1984, is a leading Houston-based commercial landscaping installation and maintenance provider. The Company offers a full range of landscape and irrigation installation and maintenance services for HOAs, municipalities, commercial properties and other commercial clients.

Tillery Capital is a Charlotte, NC.-based operationally oriented, family office structured private investment firm. We make equity investments in companies whose EBITDA is greater than $2 million. We are “hands-on”, consultative investors and focus on companies where the owners or management team are still hungry to grow their business, but have concluded they need a value-added equity partner to help them get it done. Most our transactions are either recapitalizations in which the current owners retain 20-40% of the equity in the company or where the management team is buying the business from its current owners. Tillery pursues investments in certain targeted industries and is also experienced at acquiring and turning around underperforming businesses. See www.tillerycapital.com for more details.

Chairman of the Board Member for JL Filtration. JL Filtration (www.jlfiltration.com) has been a leading provider of filtration equipment, field services, and rentals to Canadian industrial concerns since its original founding in 1986. The Company offers a wealth of technical experience to complement its portfolio of carbon, sock, and coalescing elements as well as multi-bag and carbon filtration process modules.

Altos Partners was a rebooted Independent Sponsor. After personally completing four platform deals and multiple tuck-ins which represented over 91% of all capital deployed by the firm, all my domestic portfolio companies moved to Evolution Strategy, a firm built on a solid principles and a true partnership approach. At Altos I was sole lead for four of the five total investments across deal sourcing, execution, and management responsibilities.

Maven provides top-tier consulting to the mid-market. Recent projects included a growth strategy for an equipment supplier in the hydraulic's industry, commercial due diligence of a professional service business, the development of a 5 Year Value Creation Plan for a large CPG company, a profit improvement plan for a restaurant franchisee and a growth strategy for a luxury boat manufacturer.

As Co-Founder and Managing Director of CenterGate Capital, my partners and I were responsible for all activities including sourcing, negotiating, executing, and managing deals at the $365M lower middle market focused private equity firm. Recruited staff and established firm infrastructure. • Closed and managed two of the three deals in the portfolio and four additional strategic tuck-ins. • Worked very closely with portfolio companies in all operations and projects; established dashboards & acquisition target lists. Actively managed and executed strategic organic and in-organic strategies. CenterGate Capital is a private equity firm focused on improving and growing lower middle market companies with revenues of $10 to $250 million. In order to realize their potential, these companies need flexible capital, strategic guidance and strong management teams. Their holistic approach to value creation utilizes proven best practices to identify market opportunities, offer tailored investment structures and serve as active board members. They advise their portfolio companies on management recruiting, strategic acquisitions, geographic expansion, operations improvement, KPI management and financial reporting. CenterGate Capital invests in a broad range of industries including industrial, manufacturing, business services and consumer products.

AFS is the leading solutions provider for community associations by providing industry leading accounts receivable servicing combined with cash flow stabilization services.

A 4,500-person $450M global safety services provider focused on the industrial and energy markets. Responsible for both the Company’s strategic initiatives and all M&A activity as single-person department: sourcing, negotiating & execution. Also ran the Company’s global marketing efforts for two years. Sourced deals in ten countries and executed deals in four while evolving proprietary deal pipeline of 350+ prospects.• Crafted the Company’s go-forward strategy; led executive and sales strategy retreats; presented to the Board.• Closed six deals in one year, 11 total; grew the Company’s EBITDA by ~80% via acquisitions.• Provided instrumental support during successful Company auction: CIM, presentation, and diligence. Total Safety, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is the premier global, outsourced provider of integrated safety and compliance solutions to clients operating in hazardous environments. Total offers an unrivaled breadth of services and technical expertise through four primary solution sets: i) compliance and inspection, ii) professional and technical services, iii) specialized safety personnel and iv) communications, monitoring and security. Total integrates a diverse range of services, safety equipment and technical products to support your increasingly complex risk mitigation requirements. Leveraging its unique, onsite delivery model, it has developed long-standing, direct client partnerships with some of the largest blue-chip companies in the world. Complementing their established leadership position in the upstream and downstream energy and petrochemical segments, it continues to successfully expand its service offering into the following adjacent, highly-regulated markets: midstream energy, chemicals, power, government, steel, and mining.

Added marketing to my past (and once again current) role and ran the Global Marketing team for Total Safety; handed it back over when new senior leadership joined Total Safety and I once again focused exclusively on Strategy and M&A.

Strategic and business consulting; marketing strategy, and research.

A ten-person $1B middle market private equity firm making equity and debt investments between $30-100M in companies with $10-50M of EBITDA. Personal experience included growth equity and distressed investments in a variety of industries with entry points from both the equity and debt side of the balance sheet.• Involved in deal sourcing, marketing, recruiting, network management, and investment strategy.• Developed and manage the firm’s deal sourcing/pipeline and CRM database.• Worked on transactions representing $145MM+ total invested equity.• Co-managed fund’s entry into the distressed debt network, nurturing relationships with new deal sources.• Focused on portfolio management, cost rationalization, restructuring, and turnaround operations.

Then a $2B lower middle market private equity firm with 45 portfolio companies making equity investments between $5-40M. Personal experience included LBO, corporate carve-out, growth equity, tuck-in acquisition, bankruptcy reorganization & Chapter 11 emergence, and debt purchase investments.• Closed nine acquisitions (40% of the firm’s total during that period including five platforms) and two sales.• Led successful sale auction process, dividend recapitalization, business divesture, and indemnification suit.• Created much of what became the Firm-template material (diligence, presentations, bank books, etc.).

Then a $4.5B private equity firm with 68 portfolio companies which partnered with veteran management to provide equity investments between $50-200M. Transactions included LBOs, growth equity, and consolidation strategy.• Selected for deal team that closed $900M going-private transaction.• Primary proactive deal sourcing associate, uncovering deals and executives through personal diligence.

Ranked at the top of tenure group. One of two finalists for Sydney’s Individual Client Impact Award.• Re-Engineered billing and collections for an integrated telecommunications company. Personally delivered immediate cash impact of A$33M and annual savings of more than A$57M.• Advanced raw material purchasing strategy for Ford, isolating $31M (16%) in savings.• Led Client-Supplier alliance taskforce, cutting supply base 80% and realizing $4M in annual savings.