The Gores Group

The Gores Group is a control-oriented private equity firm founded in 1978 by Alec Gores and headquartered in California, U.S. Specializing in acquiring and partnering with businesses across various industries such as technology, telecommunications, business services, industrial, healthcare, media and entertainment, and consumer products, The Gores Group leverages its operational expertise and capital base to drive growth and value creation. With offices in North America and Europe, the firm actively pursues investment opportunities and manages a diverse portfolio of companies. The Gores Group focuses on mature and growing businesses, seeking to enter into mergers, acquisitions, or similar transactions to enhance the value of its portfolio.

Joe Awad

Vice President

Ian Chen

Associate

Jennifer Kwon Chou

Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer

Christopher F. Crowell

Managing Director, Operations

John Danner

Managing Director, Operations

Ted Fike

Senior MD

Fernando Goni

Managing Director, Merger and Acquisition

Alec E. Gores

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Anthony Guagliano

Managing Director

Kari Harmon

VP

Eric Hattler

Managing Director and General Counsel

Edward Johnson

Managing Director

Steve Johnson

Director

Victor C. Otley

Managing Director

Anne Phillips

Vice President, Internal Audit and Risk Management

Catherine Pollard

Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer and Office of the Chairman

Robbie Reynders

Managing Director, Operations

Joseph Skarzenski

Principal

Barrett Sprowl

Managing Director

Mark Stone

Senior Managing Director and Investment Committee Member

Carpus Tin

VP

Eric Tis

VP

Thomas Waldman

Managing Director, Legal at Gores Operations, Small Capitalization Group

Christopher Webb

VP

Lindsay Wynter

Managing Director, Finance

Steven Yager

Senior Managing Director

Daniel Zlotnitsky

Associate

27 past transactions

Allen Beydoun leads more than 100 Account Executives, Team Leaders, Division Managers and Developmental Teams. On a day-to-day basis, Beydoun enforces continuous strategies focused on maintaining and expanding UWM’s Broker and Correspondent network. Beydoun joined UWM as an Account Executive in 2007 and developed a strong understanding of customer dynamics to create a leadership style that would further drive UWM’s commitment to Lending Made Easy. His impressive leadership guides the entire staff of UWM in providing exceptional customer service, consistent turn times and constant communication between UWM’s operations staff and Brokers. Recently, Beydoun was named as one of The Top 40 Mortgage Professionals under 40 by National Mortgage Professional Magazine.

Hovis Ltd

Acquisition in 2014
Hovis Limited produces bread, pastry, and cakes. The company was formerly known as Hovis Opco Limited and changed its name to Hovis Limited in February 2014. Hovis Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in High Wycombe, United Kingdom.

ASTADIA

Acquisition in 2012
Astadia provides cloud solutions consulting and systems integration for enterprises looking to accelerate business outcomes. Astadia transforms how its clients develop market opportunities, accelerate revenues and convert customers into advocates. Unlike integrators that concentrate only on implementing technology, Astadia focuses on truly understanding client needs. By building authentic client partnerships and using its unique, proven methodologies and frameworks, Astadia delivers meaningful solutions for its clients. Delivered by professionals with deep experience and pedigree, Astadia creates bulletproof cloud solutions with measurable business results.
Pacific Architects and Engineers Incorporated (PAE) is a provider of services that support military readiness, peacekeeping missions, nation building activities, personnel recruitment and training, and disaster relief services.

VITAC

Acquisition in 2016
VITAC is the largest provider of closed captioning in the country, responsible for captioning over 500,000 live program hours per year, and creating verbatim, precisely timed captions for 57,000 prerecorded programs per year. Our customers include every major network, most cable channels, program producers, corporations, government agencies, and more. VITAC was founded in 1986 by two men with one big idea: produce the best-quality realtime captions for viewers who rely on captions. Fast-forward 30 years, and that big idea is still the same, with more services and customers growing year after year. Providing Vital Access is in our name and is our mission. Let us show you why we are called the “no worries” caption company, with accessible media solutions for every industry from web captioning to Spanish subtitling to audio description.

Doma

Post in 2021
States Title Holding, Inc. offers real estate settlement and closing services for residential and commercial transactions in the United States. It offers instant underwriting services for title and escrow transactions. The company also provides digital closings, such as hybrid closings States Title Holding, Inc. was formerly known as Spear Holding Inc. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Verifone

Acquisition in 2001
VeriFone is a California-based company that designs, markets, and services electronic payment solutions for consumers, merchants, and financial institutions. Its product portfolio is comprised of contactless and countertop systems as well as electronic cash register and payment devices, PIN pads, POS systems, indoor and outdoor unattended payment solutions, wireless handheld payment devices, and point-of-sale receipt printers. The company also provides software solutions for card acceptance, mobile payments, security and encryption, POS integration, value-added and prepaid services, issuing and acquiring, estate management, petroleum and convenience, and device-driven technologies as well as development tools. It provides media solutions such as digital network, taxi tops and wraps, and mobile or SMS solutions through sales representatives in Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, and San Francisco. VeriFone’s devices and systems process various payments, including signature- and PIN-based debit cards, credit cards, contactless or radio frequency identification cards, smart cards, prepaid gift and other stored-value cards, electronic bill payment, check authorization and conversion, signature capture and electronic benefits transfers, and EBT. It serves financial institutions, payment processors, petroleum companies, retailers, government organizations, and healthcare companies as well as independent sales organizations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia Pacific Rim, and North America. Verifone was founded in 1981 and is based in San Jose, California.

Hostess

Acquisition in 2016
Hostess Brands is a packaged food company focused on developing, manufacturing, marketing, selling and distributing fresh baked sweet goods.

United Road Services

Acquisition in 2007
United Road is the premier auto transport company in North America. Each year, coast to coast and across the borders, United Road manages the transport of nearly 2 million cars. Their satisfied clients include all major global vehicle manufacturers, re-marketers, financial institutions, car auctions, car dealers, retail single units and personally owned vehicles. Across the city or across the country, United Road IS Driven to Deliver.

AMI Entertainment Network, LLC

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
AMI Entertainment Network has been developing cutting-edge entertainment solutions for bars and restaurants for more than a century, from the dawn of the jukebox to the digital age. Featuring the latest in content and technology, AMI Jukeboxes and Tap TV provide everything you need to connect with today’s tech savvy patrons. From music to video to mobile, AMI provides 360 degrees of entertainment.

Zmags

Acquisition in 2014
Zmags Creator enables marketers to design and publish endless types of interactive digital experiences without coding. Plugging directly into your existing tech stack, marketers can launch Creator in one hour. Brands like Ethan Allen, AG Jeans, and Cole Haan leverage Creator to drive more revenue from existing digital assets at a fraction of the time and cost of coding.

Atego

Acquisition in 1998
Atego is a global software tools and professional services company focused on helping organizations engineer complex, mission- and safety-critical systems and software. Atego has more than 30 years experience in delivering solutions for the world’s largest engineering companies developing complex systems and software for Real-time, Embedded and Mission/Safety Critical applications. These companies are involved in; aerospace & defense, automotive & rail, energy & utilities as well as automation, medical and the electronics industries. Atego pioneered the creation and delivery of standard’s based solutions for UML, SysML, UPDM, Ada, Real-time Java and is actively involved with global standards bodies for systems engineering and software development. Many of our current customers have been using our products and services for decades and continue to rely on Atego’s superior engineering talent and support team dedication.

TurbineAero

Acquisition in 2018
TurbineAero is the world’s leading independent aerospace component maintenance, repair, and overhaul service providers focused on APUs and related products. The businesses provide military, commercial, and regional airline customers with a comprehensive maintenance solution for their legacy and new APU engine models. The combined entity provides global coverage from two modern facilities located in Chandler, Arizona, and Chonburi, Thailand. In addition, it is a provider of hot-section component manufacturing and repair services for original equipment manufacturers, aircraft operators, and repair and overhaul providers, offering extensive and unique capabilities, including complex machining, engineering, inspection, non-destructive testing, and thermal coatings in its Tempe, Arizona facility.

Big Strike

Venture Round in 2011
Big Strike is a leading designer, manufacturer, and wholesaler of casual and career junior lifestyle apparel for women, marketed under the Heart Soul, Soulmates, Free to Love, Halo, Tracy Evans, Star City, and First Option brands. The company is headquartered in Gardena, California.

US Farathane

Acquisition in 2015
US Farathane provide customers with a wide range of full-service support from black box design concepts to highly engineered composites, TPE’s and TPO’s as well as specialized extrusion and compression technologies. US Farathane has been a leading source of plastics manufacturing, supplying the automotive industry for over 40 years. Through highly technical research and development, coupled with a diverse and knowledgeable Management Team and dedicated Associates, US Farathane has continued to grow each year.

First Communications

Venture Round in 2020
First Communications is a telecommunications company providing data networking and managed services.

Tweddle Group

Private Equity Round in 2014
As a global leader in information solutions, Tweddle Group is focused on creating innovative communications that best address the information needs of the automotive industry. Through processes that seamlessly integrate information development, management and delivery, we produce high-quality, value-driven print, mobile and interactive communications for vehicle owners and automotive sales and service personnel. Through the four communications touch points of in-vehicle technology, web-based programming, mobile applications and the glove box, we communicate accurate and timely information with vehicle owners, forging a connection between the owner, vehicle and brand. Our unique breadth of expertise—sustained from more than 50 years collaborating with automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)—supports vehicle research and validation, content design and development, knowledge-base management, localization, composition in both print and electronic output as well as print production, fulfillment and distribution.

Fotona

Venture Round in 2020
Headquartered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and founded in 1964, Fotona’s state-of-the-art research and development facilities serve to meet the needs of the fast-changing market and set new standards of excellence for medical and non-medical high-performance laser systems. Fotona's advanced laser technologies make treatments in areas such as aesthetics and dermatology, dentistry, surgery and gynecology faster, less invasive and more effective. Patented solutions in pulse technology, energy feedback control and optical solutions for producing an almost perfectly homogeneous beam profile are highly appreciated by doctors and patients alike. Fotona manufactures all of its laser systems in Ljubljana, and its products are available to dental and medical professionals through a worldwide network of distributors.

Somero Enterprises

Acquisition in 2005
Somero Enterprises, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of technologically advanced concrete placing equipment and associated machinery. Somero Enterprises was founded in 1985 and has grown and prospered by delivering superior products to an international market. Manufacturing facilities are located in Michigan and Executive offices are in Fort Myers, Florida. Our products are marketed in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia through direct sales force, sales representatives and dealers

AMI Entertainment Network, LLC

Acquisition in 2017
AMI Entertainment Network has been developing cutting-edge entertainment solutions for bars and restaurants for more than a century, from the dawn of the jukebox to the digital age. Featuring the latest in content and technology, AMI Jukeboxes and Tap TV provide everything you need to connect with today’s tech savvy patrons. From music to video to mobile, AMI provides 360 degrees of entertainment.

US Farathane

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
US Farathane provide customers with a wide range of full-service support from black box design concepts to highly engineered composites, TPE’s and TPO’s as well as specialized extrusion and compression technologies. US Farathane has been a leading source of plastics manufacturing, supplying the automotive industry for over 40 years. Through highly technical research and development, coupled with a diverse and knowledgeable Management Team and dedicated Associates, US Farathane has continued to grow each year.

The Triumph Group Operations, Inc. And Triumph Engines - Tempe

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
As of February 9, 2017, The Triumph Group Operations, Inc. And Triumph Engines - Tempe were acquired by Gores Small Capitalization Partners, L.P. The Triumph Group Operations, Inc. And Triumph Engines - Tempe And APU Overhaul Operations represents the combined operations of The Triumph Group Operations, Inc. and Triumph Engines - Tempe. The Triumph Group Operations, Inc. provides repair and overhaul services for auxiliary power units (APU) and related accessories for airlines. Triumph Engines - Tempe designs, manufactures, repairs, and overhauls aftermarket aerospace components and provides repair services. The companies are based in the United States. The business is located in the United States.

Clark Group

Acquisition in 2011
The Clark Group, Inc. provides third party logistics services for publishing, printing, distribution, and other highly service sensitive industries in the United States and internationally. The company’s domestic services include national print media logistics, pool shipping programs, reverse logistics, USPS mail, newspaper inserts, and retail displays; and international services comprise international print media logistics, international air and ocean freight forwarding, and consolidation and warehousing solutions. It also provides supply chain export and import, distribution, and transportation management services. The company is based in Hamilton, New Jersey with a network of distribution centers in the United States. As of November 29, 2017, The Clark Group, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of LSC Communications, Inc.

Wire One Technologies

Acquisition in 2003
Wire One Technology is a end-to-end videoconferencing solutions provider committed to delivering better, faster, and more cost effective video communications solutions. Wire One offers customers videoconferencing and network products from leading manufacturers such as Polycom, Accord, TANDBERG, Cisco, RADVISION, Sony, VCON and VTEL. Wire One also provides a comprehensive suite of video, data and network services including design, installation, bridging, streaming, on-site and remote technical assistance, training, engineering and after-market maintenance. Wire One's current customer base includes more than 3,000 customers with approximately 22,000 videoconferencing endpoints in the commercial, federal and state government, medical and education marketplaces nationwide and across the globe.

VITAC

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
VITAC is the largest provider of closed captioning in the country, responsible for captioning over 500,000 live program hours per year, and creating verbatim, precisely timed captions for 57,000 prerecorded programs per year. Our customers include every major network, most cable channels, program producers, corporations, government agencies, and more. VITAC was founded in 1986 by two men with one big idea: produce the best-quality realtime captions for viewers who rely on captions. Fast-forward 30 years, and that big idea is still the same, with more services and customers growing year after year. Providing Vital Access is in our name and is our mission. Let us show you why we are called the “no worries” caption company, with accessible media solutions for every industry from web captioning to Spanish subtitling to audio description.

Zmags

Private Equity Round in 2014
Zmags Creator enables marketers to design and publish endless types of interactive digital experiences without coding. Plugging directly into your existing tech stack, marketers can launch Creator in one hour. Brands like Ethan Allen, AG Jeans, and Cole Haan leverage Creator to drive more revenue from existing digital assets at a fraction of the time and cost of coding.

Sonder

Post in 2022
Sonder eases and owns hotel-style properties with spaces including a dining area, a living space extra bedrooms, and modern design and a phone or text concierge service. Every rental comes with beds, linens, towels, amenities and essentials, and feature art pieces and curated furniture. Sonder currently manages over $2.3 billion of projects spanning commercially-zoned mixed-use, residential, serviced apartment, apart-hotel and hotel assets in cities.