Gryphon Investors

Gryphon Investors is a highly respected private equity firm with more than $2.5B in assets under management (AUM) focused on middle market investment opportunities. Backed by the team’s deep operational expertise and a focused industry investment strategy, Gryphon has delivered exceptional results for all stakeholders. Since its founding in 1995, Gryphon has partnered with existing management teams, making investments of $35 to $150 million, and worked together with management to build new market leaders.
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Leigh Abramson

Partner

David Andrews

CEO and Managing General Partner

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Amit Bedi

SVP

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Rohan Bhargava

Senior Associate

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Kevin L. Blank

Operating Partner

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Tim Bradley

MD

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Christine Bucklin

MD

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Vincent Carey

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Jon Cheek

MD

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Robb Crow

Associate

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Alex Earls

Deal Partner

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Alexander G. Earls

Partner

Ryan Fagan

MD

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Matthew P. Farron

Deal Partner

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Dorian Faust

Operating Partner

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Mark Fuller

MD

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Jim Gallagher

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John J. Geisler

Operating Partner

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Jim Gillette

CFO, CCO and MD

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James R. Gillette

CFO and MD

Jorge Go

Associate

Robert Grady

Partner

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Jennifer Haas

MD and COO

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Evan Heflin

SVP

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Clint Kadolph

Senior Associate

Amanda Kalin

MD

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Janet Kluzik

VP and Director of Administration

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Ankit Kumar

VP

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Dell Larcen

Operating Partner

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Kevin Liou

Associate

Wes Lucas

Operating Partner

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Will Lynn

Operating Partner Emeritus

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Will McCallum

Senior Associate

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Kelsey McGregor

Associate

Sandy McKinnon

Principal

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Benjamin Miller

Senior Associate

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Gabe Moynihan

Associate

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Craig Nikrant

Operating Partner

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Nicholas Orum

President

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Dennis O’Brien

Operating Partner

Felix J. Park

MD

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Philip Petrocelli

Operating Partner

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Jef Rogers

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Justin Saks

MD

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Michael Schreiner

Senior Associate

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Luke Schroeder

Deal Partner

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Mac Shelton

Associate

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Marcelo Silva

Principal

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Michael Sobota

Senior Associate

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Gabe Stephenson

MD

Keith Stimson

Deal Partner

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Nancy Sun

Associate

Carl Theobald

Operating Partner

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Tucker Thompson

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Jack Wang

SVP

38 past transactions

G.I. Joe’s

Acquisition in 2007
G.I. Joe’s provides its users with selections of sports, outdoors, and automotive gears. They provide support to youth teams, outdoor clubs, and community-based programs designed to improve the lives of customers in the areas where they have store locations. They also focus on regional programs that works to improve environmental quality as it relates to the active outdoor person. G.I. Joe’s is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1996 and the company was acquired by Gryphon Investors on February 5, 2007.
Nolan Transportation Group (NTG) is a full-service, third-party Logistics Company dedicated to delivering the highest level of service in the transportation industry. NTG’s carrier base consists of over 40,000 independent transportation/trucking companies that facilitate the movement of our customers’ product. Whether you’re a carrier that needs to get loaded or a shipper that deserves the best possible service in the industry, our team is eager and ready to fulfill your needs and keep you charging forward.

Mechanix Wear

Private Equity Round in 2019
Mechanix Wear LLC manufactures gloves for men and women. It offers racing, automotive, hardware, safety, tactical, garden, commercial grade, and cold weather gloves. It also offers equipment and accessories, such as shop apron, 700 series knee pads, heat sleeves, radio belt, and icon umbrella. The company sells its products through retail stores. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in Valencia, California with additional offices in Barcelona, Spain; Surrey, Canada; and Belmont, Australia.

Wittichen Supply Co

Acquisition in 2021
Wittichen Supply Company is in wholesale distributor providing best-in-class HVAC/R equipment, parts, supplies, and customer service. Wittichen maintains long-standing relationships with leading vendors and distributes products from more than 500 leading HVAC/R manufacturers.

Trinity Consultants, Inc.

Debt Financing in 2014
Trinity Consultants is an environmental consulting company that specializes in industrial air quality issues. With offices nationwide and in China and the Middle East, we help organizations comply with applicable environmental regulatory requirements and optimize environmental performance for long-term sustainability. Trinity provides value to its clients in the areas of regulatory and sustainability consulting, environmental modeling software products and services, EH&S staffing assistance, and EH&S data management solutions.

PestRoutes

Acquisition in 2020
PestRoutes is a complete, end-to-end software solution which helps Pest Control companies lower operating costs, earn more customers, and increase customer retention. The easy-to-use and mobile-friendly software automates all aspects of field service operations, including route optimization, real-time technician tracking, customer communications, scheduling, sales enablement and billing.
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Meazure Learning

Acquisition in 2020
Meazure Learning is a full-service testing solutions company for academic, professional, and lifelong learners. It is the world's most secure testing network and platform as the first end-to-end testing provider – incorporating psychometrics, test development, test delivery, secure proctoring, reporting, and more – to lead with an online delivery model, Meazure Learning is poised to transform the testing and assessment landscape.

LEARN Behavioral

Acquisition in 2019
LEARN Behavioral is the network of providers serving children with autism and other special needs.
Potter Electric Signal Company, LLC develops, manufactures, and installs sprinkler monitoring, security, fire, and industrial control products for sprinkler, fire alarm, and security industries worldwide. It offers fire sprinkler monitoring systems, addressable fire alarm systems, conventional fire alarm systems, power supplies, nitrogen/corrosion solutions, notification appliances, special hazard/releasing systems, Canadian specific products, explosion proof devices, voice systems, security notification, security contacts, security switches, and mercantile protection products. The company also provides technical support services. The company was founded in 1898 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Highmetric

Acquisition in 2021
Highmetric partners with ServiceNow and other technology platforms

Shermco Industries, Inc.

Acquisition in 2018
Shermco provides electrical testing, maintenance, commissioning, and repair services to a wide range of utility, industrial, energy, and other end markets. With more than 20 locations, Shermco serves a diversified blue-chip customer base across North America. The Company is an active participant in the InterNational Electrical Testing Association, Electrical Apparatus Service Association, and American Wind Energy Association.

Pacur, LLC

Private Equity Round in 2020
Pacur, LLC engages in the extrusion of light and heavy gauge polyester, copolyester, and polypropylene resins for converters, distributors, and end-users. It also extrudes a variety of homopolymer and copolymer polypropylenes. The company's product category includes, PETG copolyester sheets; medical polypropylenes; polyester resins specifically for the lenticular print market; and rolled lenticular products for the flexographic label market. It serves medical, food packaging, sustainable, and electronic packaging, as well as printing industries. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin with operations in Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

The Original Cakerie

Acquisition in 2015
The Original Cakerie, Ltd. Produces and supplies frozen desserts for retail and foodservice customers in Canada, the United States, and internationally. It offers three layer cakes, two layer cakes, single layer cakes, dessert bars and brownies, other baked goods, and desserts, as well as combination and variety packs. The company serves customers in restaurants/commercial, healthcare, B&I/dining, college and university, and hotel/lodging segments. The Original Cakerie, Ltd. was founded in 1979 and is based in Delta, Canada.

RoC

Acquisition in 2019
RoC is an iconic brand and category pioneer with 60+ year history in anti-wrinkle and anti-aging skincare, offering a full suite of anti-aging products sold across the globe. RoC's product offering is highly efficacious and clinically proven to reduce signs of facial aging including wrinkles, dark spots, and dullness of skin. The Company's more than 75 products are sold in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America through key mass, drug, club, specialty, ecommerce, and pharmacy channels. Key domestic retailer partners include Walmart, Target, CVS, Walgreens, Costco, Ulta, and Amazon.

Lawler Foods

Acquisition in 2016
Lawler Foods is a manufacturer of gourmet cheesecakes, cakes and pies that are used in restaurants, hotels and other fine foodservice establishments around the world. As a manufacturer, we only sell business-to-business.

Potter Electric Signal Company, LLC

Private Equity Round in 2017
Potter Electric Signal Company, LLC develops, manufactures, and installs sprinkler monitoring, security, fire, and industrial control products for sprinkler, fire alarm, and security industries worldwide. It offers fire sprinkler monitoring systems, addressable fire alarm systems, conventional fire alarm systems, power supplies, nitrogen/corrosion solutions, notification appliances, special hazard/releasing systems, Canadian specific products, explosion proof devices, voice systems, security notification, security contacts, security switches, and mercantile protection products. The company also provides technical support services. The company was founded in 1898 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

RegEd, Inc.

Acquisition in 2018
RegEd provides Compliance Education and Training, Compliance and Risk Management and Licensing and Registration solutions and services. With more than 400 enterprise clients, RegEd's solutions enable financial services firms to efficiently comply with state, federal, FINRA and other regulations impacting broker-dealers, insurance companies and insurance brokers.

Vessco, Inc.

Acquisition in 2020
Vessco is a multifaceted water treatment company providing value-added distribution and engineering services for municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment projects, primarily in the upper Midwest and central United States. The Company implements a highly technical sale process that requires a consultative, engineering-centric approach. This effort is supported by Vessco’s outstanding reputation as industry experts with its over 3,500 past customers.
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Right Time Heating & Air Conditioning Canada is an independent heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (“HVAC”) contractor focused strictly on the residential replacement market.

Learn It Systems

Acquisition in 2019
Learn-It Systems is an educational services company that provides research-based reading and math tutoring services to struggling public and private school students targeted by classroom teachers and district administration for intervention in the United States. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland with additional offices in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Matrixx Initiatives, Inc.

Acquisition in 2018
Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. manufactures and markets homeopathic and allopathic over-the-counter health care products under the Zicam brand name. The company offers cold remedy products, including cold shortening, nasal congestion/sinus relief, allergy relief, and kids cold relief products. It offers its products through drug, grocery, online, and mass retailers. Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. was formerly known as Gum Tech International, Inc. and changed its name to Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. in June 2002. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey. As of December 1, 2020, Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Church & Dwight Co., Inc.

Consolidated Fire Protection

Acquisition in 2005
Consolidated Fire Protection installs, maintains, and services fire protection and life safety system upgrades.

3Cloud, LLC

Acquisition in 2020
3Cloud, LLC offers consulting services for Microsoft Azure technology. It provides cloud application development, infrastructure architecture, data and analytics, cloud strategy, design, implementation, and Azure Expert managed services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Downers Grove, Illinois with additional offices in Chicago, Illinois

Kano Laboratories Inc.

Acquisition in 2020
Kano Laboratories Inc. manufactures and supplies penetrating oils and lubricants for industrial maintenance, repair, and operations. It offers penetrants, industrial lubricants, industrial specialties, and engine cleaners, which are used by professionals to loosen rusted, corroded, or frozen mechanical parts, as well as by consumer markets. The company was founded in 1939 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Transportation Insight

Private Equity Round in 2018
Transportation Insight is a global, non-asset based Third Party Logistics (3PL) provider. Founded in 1999, they have grown from their roots in domestic LTL transportation to become one of North America’s leading providers of custom logistics solutions. Their service and technology offerings span domestic transportation, international logistics, and warehousing—creating end-to-end supply chain solutions. They serve their clients across North America and overseas from their headquarters location in Hickory, North Carolina, as well as operating centers in Atlanta, Georgia; Bentonville, Arkansas; Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; Omaha, Nebraska; Salt Lake City, Utah; Overland Park, Kansas; and more than 50 client support offices across the United States. They work with a broad range of manufacturers, retailers and distributors to identify and capture supply chain savings and efficiencies, so that they can execute with excellence and dominate their markets.

Milani Cosmetics

Acquisition in 2018
Milani, headquartered in Los Angeles, is a market leader in the cosmetics industry, best known for its top quality products for women of all skin tones and beauty goals. The company began with the creation of Jordana Cosmetics in 1986 and grew with the purchase of Milani in 2001. Milani products are primarily manufactured in the U.S. and Italy. The company's face, lip and eye products are available in 75 countries and through key domestic retailer partners including Walmart, Walgreens, Ulta, Target and CVS.

Wind River Environmental

Acquisition in 2017
Wind River provides non-discretionary and regulatory-driven non-hazardous waste removal and treatment services to a wide range of commercial, residential, and municipal customers across the Eastern U.S. With more than 25 locations, Wind River serves a diversified blue-chip customer base including national food and retail establishments such as Starbucks, McDonald’s, and Whole Foods.

Smile Brands

Acquisition in 2016
Bright Now!(R) Dental Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Monarch Dental Corp., Castle Dental Centers, and Newport Dental Plan, provide business support services to approximately 300 dental offices in 19 states nationwide. Affiliated and staff dentists provide general, cosmetic, and specialty care to more than 2 million patients each year. Bright Now's mission is to manage the time-consuming business functions of running dental practices, in order to free dentists to devote virtually all of their time to caring for patients by delivering quality dental care, superior service, and exceptional value. Bright Now offers dentists and their patients numerous benefits and advantages over traditional dental care models. Bright Now assumes responsibility for business support services such as finance, sales and marketing, information technology, human resources, purchasing, and real estate development, while dentists retain responsibility for all clinical matters. Patients benefit from quality, full-service dental care, including general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, and specialty services such as orthodontics. Extended evening and weekend office hours, convenient locations, affordable prices, and flexible payment plans make quality dental care available to a wide range of patients.

Water’s Edge

Private Equity Round in 2018
Water’s Edge is a provider of over 30 dermatology clinics in Florida.

PestRoutes

Private Equity Round in 2020
PestRoutes is a complete, end-to-end software solution which helps Pest Control companies lower operating costs, earn more customers, and increase customer retention. The easy-to-use and mobile-friendly software automates all aspects of field service operations, including route optimization, real-time technician tracking, customer communications, scheduling, sales enablement and billing.

Ncontracts LLC

Acquisition in 2020
Ncontracts is a web-based contract and vendor management software and service that provides the foundation for your company to optimize contract data and maximize profits by: Reducing operating expenses and lowering administrative costs. Making your business. Profitable. Employing skilled paralegals to analyze and organize material terms of complex contracts. Making your business. Accurate. Implementing the solution for you, specific to your industry – and ready immediately. Making your business. Maximized. Delivering secure online document storage and retrieval. Making your business. Controlled.

CORA Health Services

Acquisition in 2016
CORA Physical Therapy is an operator of outpatient physical therapy services with a focus on the Southeastern U.S.

Heartland Veterinary Partners

Private Equity Round in 2019
Heartland Veterinary Partners LLC, a veterinary support organization, acquires, invests in, and supports veterinary practices and animal hospitals with the non-clinical business support services in in the Mid-American and Southern U.S. markets in the Mid-American and Southern Unites States markets. It offers recruiting and human resources, marketing, procurement, billing, back office management, accounting, and IT support services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

The Eight O'Clock Coffee Co

Acquisition in 2003
The Eight O'Clock Coffee Company produces and sells coffee. The company provides whole bean and ground coffees; and single-serving packs of ground coffee for use with brewing systems. Our rich history. The times may have changed, but our unwavering commitment to supplying every kitchen, loft, and breakfast nook with quality coffee has not. Our beans have journeyed from Maryland, where we roast them all, to tables across the nation since 1859. We love coffee, and coffee loves company. Share in our passion, and learn what makes Eight O’Clock Coffee, America’s Gourmet Coffee.

Ob Hospitalist Group, Inc.

Acquisition in 2017
Ob Hospitalist Group, Inc. provides on-site board certified obstetrics (OB) and gynecology (GYN) physician support services to its hospital partners in the United States. The company develops and manages on-site OB/GYN hospitalist programs for women’s health. It also provides emergent care in times of crisis or routine care in the absence of a patient’s private physician. Ob Hospitalist Group, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Mauldin, South Carolina with additional locations in Greenville, South Carolina and Houston, Texas.