Operating Partner
CurrentRecent acquisition in home safety category, helping founders launch a "disruptive innovation" in the consumer home safety category.
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Tim Spring is listed as Operating Partner - River House Partners LLC at Goodie Girl, based in New York, New York, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Tim Spring.
Tim Spring previously worked as Operating Partner at Halt!(R) Home Safety and Advisor to Founder at Goodie Girl. Tim Spring holds Mba, Marketing Strategy And Organizational Change from Pace University - Lubin Graduate School Of Business.
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Private equity operating executive (triple digit average ROI over last 10 years) -- providing strategic and tactical support to PE-backed acquisitions in Food, Health & Wellness, Personal Care, Cookies, Household, Baby Products, Craft Beer, Candy, Organic Snacks, Pet Products, Better-for-you foods, and General Merchandise. Focus: Lower-middle and Core-Middle market, Consumer Sector. Revenues $50MM+. EBITDA $2MM+Brand revitalization projects, niche brands poised for mass expansion, orphaned brands with base in North America , and mid-deal underperforming businesses are seen as very attractive.Current portfolio companies that are possibly doing well "but could do better", are of particular interest. Strong experience in "make ready" leadership, preparing an existing investment to make it ready for an exit, as well as comprehensive acquisition-to-growth-to-exit experience.
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Recent acquisition in home safety category, helping founders launch a "disruptive innovation" in the consumer home safety category.
Ridgefield, New Jersey, US
Executive Chairman and Founder Advisor of this high-growth, late-stage start up. Goodie Girl is a better-for-you, gluten-free cookie and snack company. Helped the founder and early investors gain scale, national distribution and consumer awareness.
Hands-on Executive Chairman roles, working with existing management -- or building entirely new teams -- to improve portfolio company performance for a collection of Private Equity partners/clients, including Kainos Capital, The Riverside Company, Yellowstone Partners, Lion Capital, and others.
Grew revenue from $2mm to $45mm in 3 years. Provided hands-on strategic and tactical support to CEO to launch this high growth brand in the RTE popcorn category, CandyPop(r). Drizzled popcorn with mega-brand topping like Oreo, Snickers, Twix, M&M's, etc. Established simple-but-effective "metrics dashboard" to guide company toward consistent value-creation.
Southampton, NY, US
"The most successful exit in the Riverside Company's history, and to the best of our knowledge, possibly the highest EBITDA multiple ever paid for any Food & Beverage deal..." - Alan Peyrat
The best-tasting organic candy in the world.
Boulder, Colorado, US
Innovative and hip, Scandinavian-style baby carriers.
Supported PE investors and the Founder on growing revenue and strategic expansion for this high-growth new entrant in the healthy snack category. Product was a unique combination of high-quality trail mix -- and jerky -- mixed together.
Recruited mid-deal by private equity owners to improve the operational performance and make-ready this troubled portfolio company owned by a Canadian PE firm. One division was performing well, the other was in a highly distressed status. Restructured go-to-market strategy by honing in on ownable innovation, improved branding, launching patented product.
Houston, Texas, US
Worked with Yellowstone on deal prospecting on lower-middle-market acquisitions in the Consumer sector, with focus on growth phase ethnic foods and snacks. Served as Board Director and Vice-Chairman on one of their portfolio companies, Chung’s Frozen Foods, with hands-on oversight of the management team and the company’s financial/operating performance..
New York, New York, US
Worked with MidOcean identifying and conducting due diligence on potential acquisitions in Food, Health & Wellness, Household, and General Merchandise. $100MM-$500MM in sales, EBITDA $5MM+. Focus on niche brands poised for mass expansion, orphaned brands with base in North America, and/or large underperforming national brands.Transitioned initiative to new.
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Provided interim, hands-on, oversight on one of Lion's portfolio companies ($600MM revenue, 4,000 employees) in the branded bread and specialty cracker category -- sold to grocery, private label and foodservice sectors. Ultimately swapped in a new CEO and created an 11-point, 500-day plan to restore EBITDA growth (which had stalled 3 years into the.
Elmwood Park, NJ, US
Led post-bankruptcy turnaround for a debt-to-equity investor. Restored profitability in 5 months, and improved EBITDA $21 million in first year.Launched first-ever 100% recycled paper product nationally Marcal Small Steps(r), growing share +50% and distribution +45%.Slashed raw material and energy costs, freight & logistics costs, labor/overtime expense.
Worked with the Food team from Hicks Muse (later spun out to form Kainos Capital) identifying and conducting due diligence on potential acquisitions in Food and Beverage sector, with revenues $100MM-$500MM, and EBITDA of $5MM+. Large focus on orphaned brands with base in North America, and under-performing specialty brands with national.
Took over as CEO following a failed auction/exit attempt by previous management, on this portfolio company owned by Brynwood Partners.Brought new life to an aging and under-performing business. Secured a successful exit in 22 months, selling to one of the top bidders in the earlier failed auction who commented, "I cannot believe what you were able to get.
Parsippany, New Jersey, US
Led post-bankruptcy turnaround for private equity investor Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst (now Kainos Capital) EBITDA grew over $40MM in two years. Just 27 months from acquisition-to-exit, with extremely high ROI.Successfully sold the company in 2004 to JW Childs, and JP Morgan.
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Tim Spring works for Goodie Girl.
Tim Spring is listed as Operating Partner - River House Partners LLC at Goodie Girl.
Tim Spring is based in New York, New York, United States while working with Goodie Girl.
Tim Spring has worked for Halt!(R) Home Safety, Goodie Girl, River House Parters Llc, Candypop(R) Popcorn (Keen Growth Capital), and Tate'S Bake Shop.
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Tim Spring holds Mba, Marketing Strategy And Organizational Change from Pace University - Lubin Graduate School Of Business.
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