Kinderhook Industries

Founded in 2003, Kinderhook Industries is a private equity firm that manages over $1.25 billion of committed capital. The firm was established to capitalize on the principals' expertise acquiring middle market companies. Kinderhook primarily makes control investments in companies with transaction values of $25-$150 million where the firm can achieve significant financial, operational and growth improvements. The firm targets orphaned non-core subsidiaries of corporate parents, existing small capitalization public companies lacking institutional support and management-led recapitalizations of entrepreneur-owned companies. Kinderhook’s principals have completed in excess of one hundred transactions, investing over $1 billion throughout their investment careers. In addition, Kinderhook is a licensed Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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Louis A. Aurelio

MD and Chief Administrative Officer

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Matt Bubis

VP

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Corwynne C. Carruthers

MD

Paul Cifelli

MD

TC

Taylor Cosme

Associate

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Robb Crew

Associate

KD

Kyle Dawson

VP

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Nate Druckenmiller

VP

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Christopher Flood

Associate

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Joshua Fontenot

Senior Associate

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Matthew Gaeta

Private Equity Associate

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Kevin Gayhardt

Associate

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Sam Keenan

VP

Jeffrey J. Keenan

Operating Partner

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Samuel J. Keenan

VP

CM

Carney Mahon

Associate

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Conor Manley

Associate

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Joseph Mayer

Senior Associate

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Robert Michalik

MD

Christian Michalik

MD

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Thalia Rey

Associate

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Derrek Ross

Senior Associate

Lisa Schmidt

CFO

Thomas Tuttle

MD

Michael Zoch

MD

Past deals in Mississippi

asTech

Venture Round in 2021
asTech is the leading provider of remote diagnostic solutions and services to the collision industry.

Rocky Ridge

Acquisition in 2019
Rocky Ridge OEM authorized specialty vehicle manufacturer (“SVM”) for light-duty pickup trucks.

Automotive Keys Group (AKG)

Venture Round in 2021
Automotive Keys Group is a high-growth specialty automotive products business providing industry solutions to its customers throughout North America. AKG is a remanufacturer and distributor of replacement automotive keyless entry remotes, other key replacements, and related equipment. The company sells into a variety of end markets through several sales channels and customer-facing brands. With a diverse set of supplier relationships, AKG provides a comprehensive product offering for over 95% of the vehicles on the road.

Custom Ecology

Debt Financing in 2015
Custom Ecology, Inc. engages in the transportation of municipal, industrial, and hazardous wastes for companies, treatment and disposal firms, utilities, and industrial facilities in the United States. It offers transportation services for various types of liquids, semi-liquids, sludges, solids, and drums. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Walker, Louisiana.

VESTA Modular

Seed Round in 2021
VESTA was formed with a focus to provide modular building solutions that would change the way people thought about the building process. Developed by a strong management team that has years of experience and truly understands the modular building process, VESTA brings a professional approach and unique perspective to its projects utilizing a greener, faster, and smarter way of building.

National Truck Protection

Acquisition in 2016
National Truck Protection Co., Inc. is the independent provider of warranty and service contracts to the North American trucking industry. NTP, celebrating its 30th year, provides private label warranties to major OEMs as well as extended service contracts to the used truck segment through its extensive network of corporate and independent dealers. NTP provides the most comprehensive repair and breakdown management services in the industry.

asTech

Private Equity Round in 2021
asTech is the leading provider of remote diagnostic solutions and services to the collision industry.

EcoSouth Services

Private Equity Round in 2020
Headquartered in Mobile, Alabama, EcoSouth is a leading regional provider of non-hazardous waste hauling and disposal services for commercial and industrial waste generators. The Company currently provides waste hauling services in and around Mobile and Birmingham, Alabama and Hattiesburg, Mississippi with landfill operations in Mobile, Alabama and Santa Rosa County, Florida. EcoSouth specializes in managing hard to process non-hazardous liquid and solid waste from industrial waste generators. The Company owns and operates a fleet of collection vehicles as well as a non-hazardous landfill which can accept industrial and construction and demolition waste.

StudyKIK, LLC

Private Equity Round in 2018
StudyKIK is the leading website where855 500 0217 clinical trial companies list their studies and eager volunteers find them to sign up instantly. It has never been easier to search and find clinical trials of all therapeutic types! Give it a try… you may be surprised with the studies you find! StudyKIK’s mission is change lives by helping new treatments come to market faster and to enable anyone who wants to volunteer for a research study to easily search.

Invisible Media, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Invisible Media, Inc. is a real-time mobile data, decision-making, marketing automation, and analytics platform for a mobile-first world. It help brands leverage data and real-time technologies to create better user experiences for consumers across physical and digital channels. Invisible Media, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, United States.

Adell Corporation

Acquisition in 2019
Adell Corporation manufactures and distributes door edge guards. The company offers in-house engineering, extruding, injection molding, metal fabricating, packaging, painting, and quality control solutions. It caters to the automobile industry. The company's clients include Toyota, Lexus, Honda, Acura, Subaru, Volkswagen, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Nissan, and Mazda. Adell Corporation was founded in 1952 and is based in Sunnyvale, Texas.

Automotive Keys Group (AKG)

Private Equity Round in 2021
Automotive Keys Group is a high-growth specialty automotive products business providing industry solutions to its customers throughout North America. AKG is a remanufacturer and distributor of replacement automotive keyless entry remotes, other key replacements, and related equipment. The company sells into a variety of end markets through several sales channels and customer-facing brands. With a diverse set of supplier relationships, AKG provides a comprehensive product offering for over 95% of the vehicles on the road.

AbsoluteCARE

Venture Round in 2021
AbsoluteCARE is conveniently located in both Atlanta and Baltimore. The company is a value-based integrated healthcare provider focusing on providing comprehensive and preventative care. It operates a patient-centered ambulatory intensive caring unit delivery model and becomes the primary care provider for the complex and highest utilizing patients.

Intergulf Corporation

Acquisition in 2017
Intergulf Corp. provides solutions to industry partners by specializing in procuring, blending, treating, and processing petroleum, petrochemical products, and waste streams. Strategically located along the Houston Ship Channel, Intergulf is actively involved in the petrochemical community and understands the dynamics involved in this sensitive, highly regulated arena. Intergulf operates in five business segments: waste & recycling, petroleum products, marine services, distillation and transportation.

VESTA Modular

Acquisition in 2021
VESTA was formed with a focus to provide modular building solutions that would change the way people thought about the building process. Developed by a strong management team that has years of experience and truly understands the modular building process, VESTA brings a professional approach and unique perspective to its projects utilizing a greener, faster, and smarter way of building.

Copperweld

Acquisition in 2019
Copperweld is the world's largest manufacturer of bimetallic conductors.

Capital Waste Services, LLC

Acquisition in 2019
Capital Waste Services is a Columbia based waste services company that provides Residential, Commercial and Industrial waste collection, disposal and recycling services in the Midlands of South Carolina.

ZVRS

Acquisition in 2015
CSDVRS, LLC provides video phones and video relay services (VRS) that enable deaf and hard of hearing individuals to have telephone conversations with hearing people worldwide. It offers videophones and accessories; and Z4, a software solution for computers and mobile devices to enable VRS.

Original One Parts, LLC

Acquisition in 2020
Original One Parts, LLC distributes original equipment manufacturer (OEM) auto parts for use in both collision and mechanical repairs. The company offers mechanical, electrical, absorption, suspension, and appearance auto parts. It serves independent collision repair shops, dealership service centers, multi-shop locations (MSOs), and other customers. Original One Parts, LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Bestop Inc.

Acquisition in 2015
Bestop is focused on the manufacturing and marketing of soft tops and fabric accessories for jeep vehicles. Its products include seating, seat covers, hardware, door and window kits, floor mats, cargo liners, bumpers, tire carriers, and more. Bestop offers Trektop Pro Hybrid Soft Top, a soft top versatility with a hard top rear glass hatch. Bestop was acquired by Kinderhook Industries in August 2015. Bestop was founded in 1954 and is based in Louisville, Colorado.

VitreosHealth, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
VitreosHealth, Inc. provides predictive analytics and risk stratification platforms for population health management. It offers population state-of-health (SOH) analyzers, cost-quality analyzers, and performance analyzers for ambulatory care; patient risk analyzers, cost-quality analyzers, and performance analyzers for acute care; and population SOH analyzers for self-insured employers. The company also provides Vitreos suite of performance optimization modules that enable healthcare providers to meet the objectives in pay-for-performance systems by bending cost and quality curves across the continuum-of-care. It serves Fortune 500 clients in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, and India. VitreosHealth, Inc. has strategic partnerships with Dell Healthcare Services; and E&Y Health Care Advisory Services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Plano, Texas with locations in the United States and India. As of September 16, 2019, VitreosHealth, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of HMS Holdings Corp.

Chemtron Corporation

Acquisition in 2019
Chemtron Corporation is an environmental services company that provides waste disposal, recycling, and compliance services.

Performance Motorsports

Acquisition in 2017
Performance Motorsports (PMi) is an accumulation of independent businesses that are all owned by Dover Corporation, each with market leading brand recognition that sells primarily pistons, and other engine related components into the Motorsports and Powersports markets (high performance racing, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, personal watercraft, etc.). The companies are market leaders in manufacturing highly engineered engine components on their respected fields. PMi’s customer base runs the gamut from recreation to the very highest levels of professional racing, in every facet of the Motorsports and Powersports Industries. The products supplied are forged and cast pistons, connecting rods, and crankshafts; along with their complimentary components, piston rings, bearings, gaskets, camshafts, and a variety of other internal valve train and engine components. Other products include suspension, braking, clutching, and chassis components. With PMI’s ability to engineer solutions for their customers and the infrastructure to test, manufacture, and distribute these products worldwide, PMi really has no equal in the field.

Superwinch

Acquisition in 2015
Superwinch, LLC designs, produces, and sells winches. It offers electric, planetary, right angle, and worm gear units, as well as hefty hydraulic workhorses. The company also provides off road, trailer, ATV, utility, industrial, and hydraulic winches; hubs and replacement parts; and accessories, such as winch mounting solutions, wiring kits and switches, hats/shirts/stickers, and winching equipment. It offers its products through dealers and stores to various industries and applications in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Superwinch was founded in 1968 and is based in Dayville, Connecticut.

Sumter Transport Co

Acquisition in 2015
Sumter Transport Company is located in Sumter, SC and has been providing these variations of service since 1951. For over 60 years, Sumter Transport has been the leader in innovative, non-traditional approaches to waste management and transportation. Our emphasis has been on mechanical methodologies that reduce the need for human effort and exposure while increasing the speed of removal. With our network of disposal facility partnerships, we have become the largest supplier of refinery waste to cement kilns throughout the United States. Health and Safety is Sumter Transport’s # 1 priority companywide. Our commitment to Sumter Transport Company’s health and safety program benefits everyone – our employees, our customers, the community, and the environment in which we share. Safety, quality, dependability, and solutions to your problems have been the keys to Sumter Transport’s continued years of success.

SCA Performance

Acquisition in 2018
SCA Performance is a OEM authorized specialty vehicle manufacturer for light-duty trucks. The Company receives new vehicles directly from the OEM’s, adds specialty packages and then sells the up-fitted vehicles to new truck dealers with a full OEM warranty. SCA’s vehicles are differentiated by their proprietary premium design packages, high-quality installations and OEM warranty.

NitroFill, Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2016
NitroFill, Inc. produces nitrogen tire inflation products. The company offers NitroFill, a nitrogen tire inflation product that generates nitrogen. It also provides tire repair and replacement coverage for NitroFilled tires; and emergency towing and roadside assistance services. The company serves Fortune 500 companies, governmental organizations, and military installations in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and internationally. It offers its products through dealers. NitroFill, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Deerfield Beach, Florida.

LeisureLink, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
LeisureLink is a private, high-growth company headquartered in Pasadena, California, and funded by leading Southern California venture capitalist firms Clearstone Venture Partners and Mission Ventures, with a strategic investment from Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN). Over 1,500 “LeisureLinked” independent vacation rental properties, timeshares, villas, bed and breakfasts, condo hotels and boutique resorts throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and the Caribbean trust our online system to manage their brands, maximize their profitability, streamline their revenue-driving efforts, and put heads in beds, every day.

Gold Medal Services, LLC

Acquisition in 2018
Gold Medal Environmental, a waste and recycling services company, provides non-hazardous solid waste management collection, disposal, and recycling services for businesses, universities, residences, and municipalities in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and Northern Delaware. It offers temporary and permanent open top dumpsters and roll-offs for construction and remodeling projects, demolition jobs, special events, and other short-term commercial services, as well as provides commercial dumpster rentals throughout the Philadelphia and South Jersey surrounding areas using various container sizes. The company also provides commercial recycling and garbage collection services; a line of compaction and waste reduction systems, as well as handles residential solid waste and recycling collection programs; and recycling services.