Fort Washington Capital Partners Group

Fort Washington Capital Partners Group is the private equity division of Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc., a privately owned investment management firm based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1999, the group focuses on providing private equity advisory services to a diverse range of clients, including high-net-worth individuals, corporations, institutional investors, and foundations. With the support of its parent company, Western & Southern Financial Group, Fort Washington Capital Partners Group emphasizes an investment-centered approach, prioritizing long-term objectives over short-term gains. The firm offers tailored investment strategies by managing separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios, as well as mutual funds, and employs a combination of fundamental and quantitative analysis to identify growth and value opportunities. Fort Washington Capital Partners Group is committed to aligning its interests with those of its clients, fostering a stable investment culture.

Tarik Adam

Senior Investment Manager

Jeff Aebischer

Assistant Vice President

Stephen A. Baker

Managing Director and Co-Head Of Private Equity

Christopher Bearden

Investment Manager, Private Equity

Paul D. Cohn

Managing Director

Joe Don Cole

Vice President Of Investor Relations

Taylor Cornell

Senior Investment Associate, Private Equity

Jamie Daugherty

Manager, Private Equity Investor Relations

Martin W. Flesher

Managing Director, Business Development and Relationship Management

Roger M. Lanham

Senior Vice President and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Fort Washington

M. Robert Maeder

Managing Director, Co-Head of Private Equity

Doris Nelson

Senior Investment Associate, Private Equity

Andrea Newton

Assistant Vice President of Finance

Jonathan David Niemeyer

Associate Counsel of Investments and Director

Julia Ossipov-Grodsky

Managing Director, Private Equity

Maribeth S. Rahe

President and Chief Executive Officer, Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.

Nicole Robinson

Client Service Associate

David K. Robinson

Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager, Growth Equity

Kenneth J. Ryan

Assistant Vice President, Director of Institutional Relationship Management

Gerald Joseph Ulland

Managing Director, Private Client Group and Chief Financial Officer

Eric J. Walzer

Vice President, Investment Operations

Brendan Matthew White

Senior Vice President and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.

John A. Wieging

Senior Equity Research Analyst

Donald Joseph Wuebbling

Secretary and Director

Wilhelm Jr., James E.

MD, Head of Public Equity and Senior Portfolio Manager

27 past transactions

Capture Media

Seed Round in 2013
Capture has created a platform for news and media publishers to search, request and publish users social media photos/videos on their websites, tv stations and other properties.

Aspen Avionics

Series C in 2012
Aspen Avionics, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded by aviation enthusiasts in 2004. The company specializes in bringing the most advanced technology and capability into general aviation cockpits. Its products increase situational awareness and reduce pilot workload, making it even easier and safer to fly in both VFR and IFR conditions. The company’s philosophy is that getting the latest avionics technology shouldn’t always mean spending a lot of money—on equipment or on installation.

TOA Technologies

Series D in 2011
TOA Technologies specializes in field service management software designed for businesses that operate in the field. Their flagship product, ETAdirect, is a cloud-based solution that utilizes a patented time-based predictive analytics platform. ETAdirect analyzes how work is performed by individual employees, identifies patterns, and predicts the most efficient routes based on real-time data. This system communicates updates to consumers throughout the service process, enhancing transparency and engagement. By implementing ETAdirect, TOA's clients can improve the effectiveness of their field service teams, leading to reduced customer wait times and increased productivity in service operations.

TruTouch Technologies

Venture Round in 2009
TruTouch Technologies, Inc. specializes in the development, manufacture, and marketing of noninvasive alcohol testing systems designed for various applications, including workplace safety, law enforcement, and medical diagnostics. The company's flagship product, the TruTouch biometric alcohol sensor, utilizes light to measure blood alcohol content while confirming the identity of the user through biometric verification. TruTouch Technologies offers solutions tailored for sectors such as energy, transportation, warehousing, and community safety. Founded in 2005, the company operates from Sudbury, Massachusetts, with a dedicated research and development center located in Riverside, California. The innovative technology aims to enhance safety and compliance by providing accurate and reliable alcohol testing without the need for invasive procedures.

ThinkVine

Series B in 2009
ThinkVine Corporation develops marketing planning, attribution, forecasting, and optimization solutions for marketers and analysts. It provides marketing and data science, scenario-driven software, and tailored advisory services for B2C organizations. The company also offers various marketing trends; technologies; and marketing tactics, such as online, offline, digital, and traditional for customers. It serves consumer packaged goods, retail, financial services, travel and entertainment, and household goods sectors. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. As of October 18, 2016, ThinkVine Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Ignite Marketing Analytics.

Lumidigm

Series C in 2008
Lumidigm Inc. is a biometric company dedicated to enabling convenient, secure, and reliable identification and verification. Lumidigm powered sensors work because they produce high-quality images every time, in all conditions. Everyone is identifiable. Lumidigm provides biometric identity management for civil ID, point-of-sale, time & attendance, physical and logical access, and portable electronic device applications.

Comet Solutions

Series A in 2007
Comet Solutions, Inc. specializes in developing software applications that streamline engineering simulation for product development. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, the company offers a range of tools known as SimApps, which automate modeling and simulation tasks for manufacturers. These applications facilitate "what if?" analyses, assess the impact of design changes, and promote collaborative efforts among design and engineering teams, even involving non-experts in the simulation process. Additionally, Comet Solutions provides Gearbox SimApps, an automated solution focused on optimizing performance in areas such as acoustics, dynamics, durability, and cost management. The company also offers a variety of services, including SimApp development, training, and consulting for computer-aided engineering (CAE) processes. Its products are applicable in various sectors, including aerospace, consumer goods, electronics, and automotive industries. Comet Solutions operates additional offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Troy, Michigan; Shanghai, China; and India.

AssureCare

Series C in 2007
AssureCare, LLC develops and provides integrated population care management software for healthcare and human services organizations. The company offers MedCompass, a health management software solution that enables its customers to manage their businesses for clients in utilization management, case management, and disease management. AssureCare, LLC was formerly known as CH Mack, Inc. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Novarra

Series E in 2007
Novarra, Inc. provides wireless Internet solutions. It offers mobile search, portals, advertising, and Web access in mobile phones. The company provides Internet Mobility that deploys of wireless networks and devices, including mass-market phones, Smartphones, and PDAs. It also offers Vision Platform, which provides solutions for mobile data services, such as mobile Internet, video, Web 2.0, advertising, location, and ODPs; and Vision Mobile Web platform, a carrier-grade content transformation server. In addition, the company offers Vision Multimedia Platform that provides real-time transformation of video, audio, and flash animation content; and Vision Advertising Platform, which offers an advertising engine component for the delivery and management of graphical and animated advertisements. It serves mobile network operators, wireless handset manufacturers, Web content providers, and enterprises. Novarra, Inc. was formerly known as Infospeed Communications, Inc. and changed its name in 2000. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Itasca, Illinois. It has locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Thailand.

Aspen Avionics

Series B in 2007
Aspen Avionics, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded by aviation enthusiasts in 2004. The company specializes in bringing the most advanced technology and capability into general aviation cockpits. Its products increase situational awareness and reduce pilot workload, making it even easier and safer to fly in both VFR and IFR conditions. The company’s philosophy is that getting the latest avionics technology shouldn’t always mean spending a lot of money—on equipment or on installation.

Alluxa

Venture Round in 2007
Sirrus Technology, Inc. offers precision optical thin film interference filters for laser systems, telecommunications equipment, and biomedical instruments. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Santa Rosa, California.

iSqFt

Series C in 2006
Construction Software Technologies, Inc., doing business as iSqFt, provides online bid solicitation and preconstruction management solutions to general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers in the United States. Its service products include private construction office that enables general contractors to distribute project plans, specs, addenda, and other documents to subcontractors and suppliers; and Internet Plan Room, which provides subcontractors, suppliers, and professional estimators with access to project information, plans, specs, and addenda for publicly bidding construction projects. The company's products also include SupplyLink LEADS for building product manufacturers to generate and deliver leads through a network of construction plan rooms. Construction Software Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

BlueArc

Venture Round in 2006
BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Their products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform. Aquired by HDS as of September 7th 2011.

Comet Solutions

Series A in 2006
Comet Solutions, Inc. specializes in developing software applications that streamline engineering simulation for product development. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, the company offers a range of tools known as SimApps, which automate modeling and simulation tasks for manufacturers. These applications facilitate "what if?" analyses, assess the impact of design changes, and promote collaborative efforts among design and engineering teams, even involving non-experts in the simulation process. Additionally, Comet Solutions provides Gearbox SimApps, an automated solution focused on optimizing performance in areas such as acoustics, dynamics, durability, and cost management. The company also offers a variety of services, including SimApp development, training, and consulting for computer-aided engineering (CAE) processes. Its products are applicable in various sectors, including aerospace, consumer goods, electronics, and automotive industries. Comet Solutions operates additional offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Troy, Michigan; Shanghai, China; and India.

Aspen Avionics

Series A in 2005
Aspen Avionics, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded by aviation enthusiasts in 2004. The company specializes in bringing the most advanced technology and capability into general aviation cockpits. Its products increase situational awareness and reduce pilot workload, making it even easier and safer to fly in both VFR and IFR conditions. The company’s philosophy is that getting the latest avionics technology shouldn’t always mean spending a lot of money—on equipment or on installation.

TruTouch Technologies

Venture Round in 2005
TruTouch Technologies, Inc. specializes in the development, manufacture, and marketing of noninvasive alcohol testing systems designed for various applications, including workplace safety, law enforcement, and medical diagnostics. The company's flagship product, the TruTouch biometric alcohol sensor, utilizes light to measure blood alcohol content while confirming the identity of the user through biometric verification. TruTouch Technologies offers solutions tailored for sectors such as energy, transportation, warehousing, and community safety. Founded in 2005, the company operates from Sudbury, Massachusetts, with a dedicated research and development center located in Riverside, California. The innovative technology aims to enhance safety and compliance by providing accurate and reliable alcohol testing without the need for invasive procedures.

Lumidigm

Series B in 2005
Lumidigm Inc. is a biometric company dedicated to enabling convenient, secure, and reliable identification and verification. Lumidigm powered sensors work because they produce high-quality images every time, in all conditions. Everyone is identifiable. Lumidigm provides biometric identity management for civil ID, point-of-sale, time & attendance, physical and logical access, and portable electronic device applications.

Advent Solar

Series B in 2004
Advent Solar produces silicon photovoltaic cell-to-module technology. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A., the company focuses on delivering intellectual property (IP) for intelligent, high-energy silicon photovoltaic (PV) solutions. With patented, advanced technologies, Advent Solar enables higher value products that are Beautiful by Design™, changing the rules for smart grid economics. Advent Solar provides its industry-leading Ventura™ Technology through a licensing model. Ventura Solar Technology is a comprehensive cell-to-module architecture for high-performance solar modules that deliver the industry’s best value for silicon PV modules.

Candera,Inc.

Venture Round in 2004
A Milipitas, Calif.-based provider of storage solutions for IT infrastructures

Novarra

Series D in 2003
Novarra, Inc. provides wireless Internet solutions. It offers mobile search, portals, advertising, and Web access in mobile phones. The company provides Internet Mobility that deploys of wireless networks and devices, including mass-market phones, Smartphones, and PDAs. It also offers Vision Platform, which provides solutions for mobile data services, such as mobile Internet, video, Web 2.0, advertising, location, and ODPs; and Vision Mobile Web platform, a carrier-grade content transformation server. In addition, the company offers Vision Multimedia Platform that provides real-time transformation of video, audio, and flash animation content; and Vision Advertising Platform, which offers an advertising engine component for the delivery and management of graphical and animated advertisements. It serves mobile network operators, wireless handset manufacturers, Web content providers, and enterprises. Novarra, Inc. was formerly known as Infospeed Communications, Inc. and changed its name in 2000. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Itasca, Illinois. It has locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Thailand.

Asterand

Series C in 2003
Asterand Bioscience is the leading global provider of high quality, well characterized human tissue and human tissue-based research solutions to drug discovery scientists. Our mission is to provide human-based solutions to accelerate the identification and validation of drug targets and enhance the selection of drug candidates with an increased likelihood of clinical success. Asterand Bioscience has a well-established human tissue heritage, having been formed in 2006 through the merger of Asterand (founded 2000), a human tissue biorepository and Pharmagene (founded 1996) a human tissue-based drug discovery company. With this background and capability in human tissue procurement, characterization and research tools, Asterand Bioscience is uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive approach to meet the research needs of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostic companies, as well as academia. From our offices in Detroit, MI and Royston, U.K., our employees focus on providing services and products to accelerate drug discovery research from target identification through compound evaluation and drug safety.

BlueArc

Series D in 2003
BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Their products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform. Aquired by HDS as of September 7th 2011.

Novarra

Series C in 2001
Novarra, Inc. provides wireless Internet solutions. It offers mobile search, portals, advertising, and Web access in mobile phones. The company provides Internet Mobility that deploys of wireless networks and devices, including mass-market phones, Smartphones, and PDAs. It also offers Vision Platform, which provides solutions for mobile data services, such as mobile Internet, video, Web 2.0, advertising, location, and ODPs; and Vision Mobile Web platform, a carrier-grade content transformation server. In addition, the company offers Vision Multimedia Platform that provides real-time transformation of video, audio, and flash animation content; and Vision Advertising Platform, which offers an advertising engine component for the delivery and management of graphical and animated advertisements. It serves mobile network operators, wireless handset manufacturers, Web content providers, and enterprises. Novarra, Inc. was formerly known as Infospeed Communications, Inc. and changed its name in 2000. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Itasca, Illinois. It has locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Thailand.

BlueArc

Series C in 2001
BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Their products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform. Aquired by HDS as of September 7th 2011.

Telenisus

Series C in 2001
Telenisus is a technology firm that provides e-commerce internet solutions to its clients. It was founded in 1999 and is based in Illinois.