Grain Management

Grain Management, LLC, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a private equity firm specializing in the communications sector across North America. The firm manages two flagship funds for prominent academic institutions, endowments, and public pension funds, leveraging over 100 years of collective experience in telecommunications and technology. Grain focuses on acquiring, constructing, financing, managing, and regulating wireless communications assets, including communications towers and related infrastructure. The firm employs a disciplined, sector-focused strategy to gain deep market insights and operational expertise, while also utilizing a wide network of industry and government contacts to identify trends and forge new partnerships. Grain Management is recognized for providing innovative and cost-efficient wireless infrastructure solutions to both government and commercial clients, managing tower deployments across the United States for major wireless carriers and various governmental agencies.

Suraj Aulakh

Senior Associate

Diya Berger

Principal

Donald Carey Jr.

Managing Director

Chad Crank

Managing Director

Cayque Demarqui

Vice President

Jan Ebelt

Associate

Wenbo Fang

Vice President

Mark Fortin

Managing Director

Will Foster

Senior Associate

Tanner Goode

Vice President

David J. Grain

CEO and Founder

Abbas Hasan

Principal

Sida He

Vice President

Arya Heidari

Principal

Will Hupp

Senior Associate

Jenny Kashdan

Managing Director

Brian Lash

Vice President

Alex Lee

Associate

Paul Licursi

COO and Managing Director

Nicola Lloyd

Principal

Douglas Loveland

Managing Director

Michael McKenzie

Partner and Chief Strategy Officer, Corporate Development

Raghav Nayar

Managing Director

Adam Pickard

Principal

Michael Rhine

Senior Associate

Ricardo Rodriguez

Managing Director

Taarini Sareen

Associate

Kevin Song

Associate

Matt Soundy

Senior Associate

Nikola Trkulja

Managing Director

William Waesche

Senior Associate

Kevin Xu

Senior Associate

Jonathan Young

Senior Associate

Jeff Zhou

Principal

5 past transactions

Tachus

Acquisition in 2021
Tachus is a provider of fiber-optic internet services for residential customers in Texas. The company focuses on delivering fast and reliable internet through unlimited, enterprise-grade data-only services offered at a lifetime fixed rate. Tachus emphasizes local customer support to enhance the user experience. With an extensive network that has reached over 26,000 homes and serves thousands of clients, Tachus is actively expanding its fiber network throughout the Houston area. The company aims to simplify internet access with straightforward billing and reliable connections, ensuring effective communication for its users.

Hunter Communications

Acquisition in 2019
Hunter Communications providing service for local area networks, wide area networks, and everything in between. Hunter started building an all-fiber network throughout Medford with the vision of a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) throughout rural Southern Oregon, Southeastern Oregon and Northern California. Hunter now owns the largest privately held fiber optic network in the State of Oregon, and has expanded to provide advanced technical support and engineering solutions with the intent of becoming a sole source provider, capable of handling any telecommunications or networking need.

Summit Broadband

Acquisition in 2019
Summit Broadband Inc. is a telecommunications provider based in Orlando, Florida, offering a range of broadband communication services to residential and commercial customers across Central and Southwest Florida. Established in 2009, the company specializes in internet access through its fiber-optic network, along with cable television and digital telephone services, which include local and long-distance calling, voicemail, and advanced features for business communication. Summit Broadband aims to deliver fast and reliable internet connectivity, along with additional services such as ethernet and dark fiber transport, catering to the diverse needs of its clientele, including hotels and other businesses.

Ritter Communications

Acquisition in 2019
Ritter Communications, based in Jonesboro, Arkansas, is a telecommunications company that offers a range of communication services for residential, business, and wholesale customers in Arkansas and Tennessee. Founded in 1906, the company provides local and long-distance voice telephone services, high-speed internet access, custom networking, and commercial cable television. Additionally, Ritter Communications offers premium cable, hardware solutions, hosted applications, remote data backup, web and email hosting, and tailored business communications systems. With a focus on fiber broadband, telecom, video, cloud, and data center services, the company aims to meet the evolving needs of its customers in an increasingly connected world. Ritter Communications operates as a subsidiary of E Ritter & Company.

Great Plains Communications

Acquisition in 2018
Great Plains Communications is a privately-owned telecommunications provider, delivering high speed Internet, cable television, and voice services to over 90 communities across the state. The company also prides itself on their progressive approach to accommodating the unique needs of all regional and national telecommunications carriers, LECs, ISPs, wireless carriers and other service providers utilizing superior engineering and custom build strategies.
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