Equity Group Investments

Equity Group Investments (EGI) is a Chicago-based private investment firm founded by Sam Zell in 1968. With over 50 years of experience, EGI focuses on long-term investments across a diverse range of industries, including logistics, transportation, infrastructure, waste management, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and communications. The firm leverages private capital to make investments in both public and private companies, holding controlling or non-controlling interests in various forms of debt and equity. EGI is equipped to navigate different phases of the economic cycle, allowing for flexibility in its investment strategy.

Bo Bushong

Vice President - Investments

Kevin Byers

Associate - Investments

Lesley Cheers

Managing Director - Communications

Michael Clemmons

Associate - Investments

Jennifer Flandina

Managing Director - Strategic Partnerships

Shallene Gross

Managing Director - Investments

Ellen Havdala

Managing Director

Faizan Kabir

Vice President - Investments

Michael Leahy

Managing Director - Investments

Michael Mattei

Senior Associate - Investments

Rahul Sen

Managing Director, Investments

Michael Svetina

Senior Associate - Investments

Philip Tinkler

CFO

Rashmi Vadnagare

Vice President - Investments

Matthew M. Zell

Managing Director

Aaron Zell

Senior Associate, Investments

9 past transactions

Covera Health

Series C in 2021
Covera Health is a clinical analytics company focused on improving healthcare quality and reducing medical misdiagnoses. The company develops high-quality radiology programs for payers, utilizing advanced data analytics to assess clinical datasets in innovative ways. By partnering with healthcare providers, Covera Health aims to enhance the measurement and delivery of care, ultimately helping employers and payers achieve better patient outcomes while minimizing unnecessary healthcare expenditures. Through its commitment to quality-based solutions, Covera Health is pioneering efforts to ensure that patients receive the appropriate care they need.

Able Freight Services

Private Equity Round in 2020
Able Freight Services Inc. is a logistics and freight forwarding company based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in the transportation of perishable commodities. Founded in 1992, the company offers a range of services including air, ocean, and ground transportation, as well as customs brokerage and dedicated warehousing. Its expertise lies in cold chain logistics, ensuring the safe delivery of time-sensitive goods such as berries, stone fruits, grapes, green onions, confectionery, asparagus, pharmaceuticals, and flowers. Able Freight Services collaborates with notable partners, including major airlines, to optimize its transportation solutions. The company is committed to effective packaging and competitive pricing to meet the diverse needs of its clients.

Covera Health

Series A in 2019
Covera Health is a clinical analytics company focused on improving healthcare quality and reducing medical misdiagnoses. The company develops high-quality radiology programs for payers, utilizing advanced data analytics to assess clinical datasets in innovative ways. By partnering with healthcare providers, Covera Health aims to enhance the measurement and delivery of care, ultimately helping employers and payers achieve better patient outcomes while minimizing unnecessary healthcare expenditures. Through its commitment to quality-based solutions, Covera Health is pioneering efforts to ensure that patients receive the appropriate care they need.

ILTA Grain

Private Equity Round in 2017
ILTA Grain is a processor and merchandiser specializing in pulses, grains, and oilseeds, primarily sourced from North American growers. The company has established a robust network by building and acquiring over six processing and cleaning facilities in recent years. ILTA Grain operates storage facilities for various agricultural products and manages the entire supply chain, from sourcing raw materials directly from farmers to processing, cleaning, and exporting the finished goods. They cater to both commercial and state buyers globally, shipping products in containers and full vessels. With a focus on quality, ILTA Grain emphasizes specialty crops, including lentils, peas, beans, and chickpeas, ensuring a reliable supply of grains and oilseeds to meet international demand.
Cellular Dynamics International Inc., (CDI) is a developer and manufacturer of fully functioning cells in industrial quantities to precise specifications. CDI's proprietary products include true human cells in multiple cell types (iCell products), human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and custom iPSCs and iCell products (MyCell Products). CDI's products provide standardized, easy-to-use, cost-effective access to the human cell, the smallest fully functioning operating unit of human biology. Customers use our products, among other purposes, for drug discovery and screening, to test the safety and efficacy of their small molecule and biological drug candidates, for stem cell banking, and in the research and development of cellular therapeutics.
Advancis is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel anti-infective products.
MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company offering anti-infective products and antibiotics.
Rules-Based Medicine (RBM), the world's leading multiplexed biomarker testing laboratory, provides comprehensive protein biomarker products and services based on its Multi-Analyte Profiling (MAP) technology platform. RBM's biomarker testing service provides pre-clinical and clinical researchers with reproducible, quantitative, multiplexed immunoassay data for hundreds of proteins in a cost-effective manner, from a small sample volume and from multiple species. Their biomarker testing laboratory is CLIA certified and supports GLP studies.

Reis

Post in 2000
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