Team

Partners

  • Adam Blumenthal
    Managing Partner
    and Chairman

    Adam Blumenthal is Founder, Co-Managing Partner and Chairman of Blue Wolf Capital Partners.

    Prior to founding Blue Wolf in 2005, Mr. Blumenthal served as First Deputy Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer for New York City from 2002 to 2005, where he managed the assets of the city’s pension system. During his tenure, the city’s pension assets increased from $65 billion to $85 billion, primarily as a result of strong investment gains. Prior to that, Mr. Blumenthal built and managed American Capital Ltd., a publicly traded buyout and mezzanine fund (NASDAQ: ACAS). During that time, Mr. Blumenthal played a central role in building the company from an unfunded start-up into a publicly traded company with over $1 billion invested in 63 middle market companies at the time of his departure.

    Mr. Blumenthal served from 2011 to 2017 as independent trustee and chair of the investment committee for the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust, a $60 billion fund that pays health benefits for over 750,000 retired autoworkers. Early in his career, from 1980 to 1984, he worked as a community and union organizer.

    Mr. Blumenthal currently serves on the Advisory Board for the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management (SOM) and is a Lecturer in the Practice of Management. From 2004 to 2007, he served on the Board of Advisors at the Yale SOM and was named a Donaldson Fellow in 2009.

    In addition to serving on numerous boards of directors for middle market companies, Mr. Blumenthal also has been a trustee and chairman of the investment committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the Community Service Society of New York.

    Mr. Blumenthal received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard College and a M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management.

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  • Jeremy Kogler
    Managing Partner

    Mr. Kogler is a Managing Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners and has led the development of Blue Wolf’s healthcare vertical. Prior to joining the firm in 2010, Mr. Kogler worked as a multi-strategy analyst focused on public securities at EnTrust Global (fka EnTrust Capital Partners), an investment management firm.

    Mr. Kogler serves on the Board of Directors of Hallcon Corporation, CQ Medical, Fox Rehabilitation, ClearSky Health, and RHA Health Services. He received a B.A. from Princeton University and a M.B.A. from Columbia University.

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  • Bennet Grill
    Partner

    Mr. Grill is a Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners and serves as Chair of Blue Wolf’s ESG Committee. Prior to joining the firm in 2012, Mr. Grill worked as an analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at Citi.

    Mr. Grill serves as Board Chair of The State Group and LOGISTEC Corporation and Board Member of Twin Rivers Paper Company, Fox Rehabilitation, Mid-Atlantic Mechanical and RHA Health Services. He received a B.S. in Economics from Duke University and is a member of Duke University Financial Partners.

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  • Natalie Marjancik
    Partner

    Ms. Marjancik is a Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2022, she was a Managing Director focusing on capital and debt advisory at Lincoln International. During her time there, Ms. Marjancik served as a key advisor to corporate and private equity clients on the structuring and arranging of debt finance across multiple sectors, including, among others, industrials, consumer, business services and healthcare. She also assessed and rendered opinions on companies’ debt capacities and various corporate transactional matters, including financing terms and structures available to borrowers. Prior to that, Ms. Marjancik practiced corporate law at Shearman & Sterling LLP, where she advised on domestic and cross-border capital raising transactions, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures.

    Ms. Marjancik received a B.S. with honors from Purdue University, a M.B.A. with honors from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law.

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  • Charles Miller
    Partner

    Mr. Miller is a Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners and has led investments across building and forest products, industrial and engineering services, and healthcare sectors. Prior to joining the firm in 2012, Mr. Miller served as Blue Wolf’s primary external counsel and, prior to that, he was an equity partner at Patton Boggs LLP from 1997 to 2012. He served as the firm-wide Deputy Managing Partner, Managing Partner of the firm’s Dallas office, Chairman of the firm’s Business Department, and as an ex-officio member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

    As an attorney, Mr. Miller counseled private equity funds, financial institutions, hedge funds, mezzanine and equity funds, and other institutional investors on matters involving mergers and acquisitions, structured and project financings, acquisition financings, recapitalizations, and restructuring and reorganization. Mr. Miller has also served as a Director at numerous non-profit organizations.

    Mr. Miller serves on the Board of Directors of BW SLC Holdings, C&C Forest Products, Gloster Forest Products, Mustang Extreme Environmental Services, Petrosmith, Vicksburg Forest Products and Sterling Site Access Solutions. He also serves as a director of Conifex Timber (TSX: CFT) (Blue Wolf Capital Fund III, L.P. is a shareholder as a result of issuance of shares by Conifex to Fund III in connection with the sale of Suwannee Lumber and Caddo River Holdings).

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  • Aakash Patel
    Partner

    Mr. Patel is a Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners and plays a leadership role in Blue Wolf’s industrial investments across a variety of niches. Prior to joining the firm in 2013, Mr. Patel was a Vice President at Eos Partners, a private equity firm investing in middle market companies. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Patel was an Associate at Thomas H. Lee Partners. He began his career in the Global Transportation investment banking group at Morgan Stanley.

    Mr. Patel serves on the Board of Directors of Mustang Extreme Environmental Services, Petrosmith, Edge Industrial Technologies, Colson Group and Sterling Site Access Solutions. He received a B.S. from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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Investment Team

  • Vijay Nandwani
    Principal

    Mr. Nandwani is a Principal at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2013, he was an Analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions investment banking group at Wells Fargo Securities.

    Mr. Nandwani serves on the Board of Directors of ClearSky Health. He received B.S. degrees in Finance and Decision Information Sciences from University of Florida.

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  • Shashank Patel
    Principal

    Mr. Patel is a Principal at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Mr. Patel first joined Blue Wolf in 2011 and was involved in Blue Wolf’s investments in American Builders Supply, Snappy Air Distribution Products, and Twin Rivers Paper Company. He then spent time at Providence Equity, Apax Partners and independently acquiring a software company, where he served as CEO, before rejoining the firm in 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Patel worked at Madison Dearborn Partners and began his career in the Mergers and Acquisitions investment banking group at Solomon Smith Barney / Citigroup.

    Mr. Patel serves on the Board of Directors of CQ Medical. Mr. Patel received a B.A. and M.S. in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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  • James Shovlin
    Principal

    Mr. Shovlin is a Principal at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2015, he was an Analyst in the Restructuring group at Guggenheim Securities.

    Mr. Shovlin serves on the Board of Directors of C&C Forest Products, The State Group, Vicksburg Forest Products and Sterling Site Access Solutions. He received a B.S. in Economics with concentrations in Accounting and Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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  • Stephen Madsen
    Managing Director, Head of Business Development

    Mr. Madsen is a Managing Director at Blue Wolf Capital where he leads the firm’s business development and origination efforts. He joined Blue Wolf from Monomoy Capital, an operationally-focused private equity firm, where he was Director of Business Development & Capital Markets. Mr. Madsen seeded and led the business development function at Monomoy with a focus on sourcing new investment opportunities from intermediaries, family owners and corporations. Prior to Monomoy, Mr. Madsen worked at Intralinks Dealnexus, an online deal sourcing and deal marketing platform, where he was Manager of Global Business Development & Origination. He started his career in primary investment research at Gerson Lehrman Group and Coleman Research Group with a focus on supporting private equity and private credit clients in the US & London as well as working with executives and experts in the Energy & Industrial sectors.

    Mr. Madsen is a member of the PE/IB Committee for ACG New York and graduated from Columbia in 2008 with a double major in History & Italian.

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  • William MacColl
    Director, Investor Relations

    Mr. MacColl is the Director of Investor Relations at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2024, he was Director, North America Investor Relations at IK Partners, a European private equity platform. Prior to IK, Mr. MacColl was a Director in the Private Capital Advisory business at Lazard, where he focused on raising capital for private equity and other alternative assets. Before Lazard, he held a similar role as a Vice President at Eaton Partners. Mr. MacColl began his career at Fulcrum Global Partners as an equity analyst and subsequently worked at Galatioto Sports Partners, a boutique investment bank.

    Mr. MacColl received a B.A. in History from Princeton University and received his M.B.A from Columbia Business School.

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  • Kate Spaziani
    Director,
    Government Affairs & Communications

    Ms. Spaziani is the Director, Government Affairs and Communications at Blue Wolf Capital Partners and has more than two decades of experience in government and public affairs. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, she spent over seven years at the NewYork-Presbyterian hospital system, serving as Vice President of Communications, External Affairs, and Federal Relations. Prior to that, Ms. Spaziani was a consultant with Sachs Policy Group and worked on Capitol Hill in numerous roles, including Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Senator Kent Conrad, Legislative Director to U.S. Representative Ron Kind, and Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative Marion Berry.

    Ms. Spaziani received a B.A. from Duke University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

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  • Jared Isenstein
    Vice President

    Mr. Isenstein is a Vice President at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2017, he was an Associate in the Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions group at Deutsche Bank.

    Mr. Isenstein serves on the Board of Directors of RHA Health Services. He received a B.A. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.

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  • Greg Singer
    Vice President

    Mr. Singer is a Vice President at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2020, he was an Associate at Nautic Partners, a middle-market private equity firm investing in the healthcare, industrials, and business services sectors. Prior to that, he was a consultant in the strategy practice of Monitor Deloitte.

    Mr. Singer received a B.S. in Economics and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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  • Mike Trivelli
    Vice President

    Mr. Trivelli is a Vice President at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2019, he was an Associate at Atairos, an independent, private company focused on supporting growth-oriented businesses across a wide range of industries. Prior to that, he was an Associate Director in the Global Industrials investment banking group at UBS after beginning his career in the Global Industrials investment banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

    Mr. Trivelli serves on the Board of Directors of Hallcon Corporation. Mr. Trivelli received a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from Miami University.

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  • Blake Montag
    Senior Manager, Portfolio Analytics

    Mr. Montag is a Senior Manager of Portfolio Analytics at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2023, he was a Senior Manager in the deal analytics practice at PwC.

    Mr. Montag received a B.A. in Accounting and an M.P.A. from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

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  • Henry Baldwin
    Senior Associate

    Mr. Baldwin is a Senior Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, he was a Senior Strategy Analyst at Accenture and an Analyst in the Global Industrials investment banking group at Credit Suisse.

    Mr. Baldwin received a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University.

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  • Jordan Fong
    Senior Associate

    Mr. Fong is a Senior Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, he was an Analyst in the Industrials Mergers & Acquisitions investment banking group at Rothschild & Co.

    Mr. Fong received a B.A. in Economics from Hamilton College.

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  • Skylar Gibson
    Senior Associate

    Mr. Gibson is a Senior Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, he was an Associate in the Healthcare investment banking group at Jefferies.

    Mr. Gibson received a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

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  • Trent Holbrook
    Senior Associate

    Mr. Holbrook is a Senior Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2022, he was an Associate at Eden Capital. Previously, he was an Analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions investment banking group at Citi.

    Mr. Holbrook received a B.S. in Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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  • Meghana Jayam
    Senior Associate

    Ms. Jayam is a Senior Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2024, she was an Associate at AEA Investors’ Middle Market Fund, investing primarily in industrials and services business sectors. Prior to that, she started her career as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.

    Ms. Jayam holds a B.S. in Economics and a B.A.S. in Computer Science from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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  • David Meyers
    Senior Associate

    Mr. Meyers is a Senior Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2020, he was an Analyst in the Restructuring group at Perella Weinberg Partners.

    Mr. Meyers received a Bachelor of Commerce with First Class Honors in Investment Management from McGill University.

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  • Lauren Schneider
    Senior Associate

    Ms. Schneider is a Senior Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2022, she was an Associate in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking group at Bank of America.

    Ms. Schneider received a B.B.A. in Finance from Baruch College as a Macaulay Honors Scholar.

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  • Alan teGroen
    Senior Associate

    Mr. teGroen is a Senior Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, he was an Analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions investment banking group at J.P. Morgan.

    Mr. teGroen received a Bachelors in Finance and Accounting from Florida State University Honors College and a Masters of Finance from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Liyon Afework
    Associate

    Mr. Afework is an Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2024, he was an Analyst in the Financial Sponsors Group at Bank of America.

    Mr. Afework received a B.S. in Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

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  • Nick Giangiordano
    Associate

    Mr. Giangiordano is an Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2024, he was an Analyst in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group at RBC.

    Mr. Giangiordano received a B.S. in Finance and Operations and Information Management from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

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  • Alex Lappin
    Associate

    Mr. Lappin is an Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2024, he was an Analyst in the Global Industrials Investment Banking group at Jefferies.

    Mr. Lappin received a B.S. in Finance from Wake Forest University.

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  • Nikhil Ramanathan
    Associate

    Mr. Ramanathan is an Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2023, he was an Associate in the investment banking advisory group at Alvarez & Marsal, after beginning his career in the investment banking group at Janney Montgomery Scott.

    Mr. Ramanathan received a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University.

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  • AJ Reid
    Associate

    Mr. Reid is an Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. He joined the firm in 2021 from the U.S. Air Force as part of the DoD SkillBridge program, which provides an opportunity for Service members to gain valuable civilian work experience through specific industry training, apprenticeships, or internships during the last 180 days of service. He previously served as an Acquisitions Officer in the U.S. Air Force.

    Mr. Reid received a B.S. in Business Administration from The U.S. Air Force Academy.

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  • Kyle Fisher
    Associate, Portfolio Analytics

    Mr. Fisher is an Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners focused on Portfolio Analytics. Prior to joining the firm in 2024, he was a Senior Associate in the Value Creation practice at EY Parthenon.

    Mr. Fisher received a B.A. in Economics from Colgate University.

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  • Bailey Marsh
    Associate, Investor Relations

    Ms. Marsh is an Investor Relations Associate at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2024, she was an Analyst on the Investment Team at Shore Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on investments in healthcare, industrials, food & beverage, and business services.

    Ms. Marsh received a B.A. in Finance from Michigan State University.

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Finance, Operations and Administration

  • Eve Mongiardo
    Chief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer & Managing Director

    Ms. Mongiardo is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and a Managing Director at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Ms. Mongiardo has an active role in management of the firm.  She oversees all aspects of finance, investor relations and reporting, investment and tax structuring, fundings, valuations, cash management, and works closely with the investment team.

    Ms. Mongiardo is a senior executive with decades of experience leading successful initiatives and optimizing financial management processes, and over 20 years as a private equity CFO. Prior to joining Blue Wolf, she provided consulting and advisory services through her own firm, including CFO advisory services, best practice, operational excellence review, and capital raising initiatives. Ms. Mongiardo spent 12 years with Irving Place Capital, where she was a Partner, and has held senior roles at Soros Private Funds Management and Goldman Sachs. She started her career at Deloitte, where she spent four years in the auditing practice.

    Ms. Mongiardo is a Certified Public Accountant and received a B.S. from Lehigh University and a M.B.A. from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. She is involved with and sits on the boards of various professional and corporate organizations.

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  • Richard Winegar
    Chief Operating Officer

    Mr. Winegar is the Chief Operating Officer at Blue Wolf Capital Partners and is the architect of Blue Wolf’s Operating Partner, Safety, Health and Environmental, Cyber Security, and Procurement programs, and a founding member of Blue Wolf’s ESG program. Mr. Winegar has over 30 years of diverse experience across industries including oil & gas, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and industrial equipment; as a senior executive, an advisor and a private equity operating partner. Since joining Blue Wolf, he has served as the interim COO of Pearl Technologies (Gloucester), ModernMD Urgent Care, and National Home Health Care. Mr. Winegar oversees internal Blue Wolf operations and Blue Wolf’s ESG, portfolio, Operating Partner and Strategic Advisor programs.

    Prior to joining the firm in 2012, Mr. Winegar worked at Capgemini Consulting and served corporate and private equity clients in vaccine manufacturing, pulp and paper, Department of Defense, and capital equipment manufacturing. During this period, Mr. Winegar began his collaboration with Blue Wolf, serving as Lead Engagement Partner for Transformation Initiatives at Finch Paper Company and Pearl Technologies, and serving as interim COO at Channel Technologies Group.

    Previously, Mr. Winegar served as a Principal at Tunnell Consulting, a leading operations and compliance consultancy serving Fortune 100 clients in life sciences. Prior to that, he held a variety of roles of increasing responsibility at American Cyanamid, a global agriculture and specialty chemicals producer. Mr. Winegar began his career at Chevron USA as a Production and Facilities Engineer overseeing the design, contracting, and installation of offshore oil and gas production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Mr. Winegar received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a M.B.A. from Columbia University.

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  • Maureen Boxer
    Director of Administration

    Ms. Boxer is the Director of Administration at Blue Wolf Capital Partners and manages a variety of functions at Blue Wolf including Human Resources, Information Technology, Administration and Office Management. She joined the firm in 2011 after serving in positions at Screenvision and Rafaella, a Perry Ellis Company.

    Ms. Boxer received a B.A. in Sociology, magna cum laude, from the City University of New York.

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  • Melissa Houston
    Director of Finance

    Ms. Houston is the Director of Finance at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining Blue Wolf, she led the accounting and operations for Post Road Group, a multi-strategy private equity firm focused on middle market investments. Prior to Post Road Group, Ms. Houston was Controller at Paulson &Co., Inc. where she was responsible for all aspects of accounting for the real estate and private equity funds and a proprietary real estate portfolio in Puerto Rico. Previously, Ms. Houston served as Controller at Colbeck Capital Management and Senior Fund Accountant at Fortress Investment Group, where she worked on the Drawbridge Long Dated Value Funds. Ms. Houston began her career at KPMG as an auditor and consultant in the transaction services group.

    Ms. Houston received a B.A. in Accounting from Murray State University and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. She is a Certified Public Accountant.

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  • James Mitchell
    Controller

    Mr. Mitchell is a Controller at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2024, he was an Assistant Controller at the Blackstone Group, specializing in Mezzanine Drawdown Credit Funds. Prior to the Blackstone Group, Mr. Mitchell was a Senior Associate within the Financial Services group at RSM, primarily auditing private equity and hedge funds.

    Mr. Mitchell received B.S. degrees in Accounting and Finance, as well as a M.B.A in Accounting, from Providence College. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

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  • Emma Fiskio
    Assistant Controller

    Emma is an Assistant Controller at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2023, she worked in the Asset Wealth Management group at PricewaterhouseCoopers primarily auditing private equity funds and providing tax compliance services.

    Emma received a B.S. and M.S. in Accounting from Fairfield University.

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  • Victoria Bowen
    Management Company Accountant

    Victoria is a Management Company Accountant at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. She started her career as a Management Company Analyst at Central Park Group. Prior to joining the firm in 2023, she worked on the Fund Operations team at Cadre.

    Victoria received a B.S. and M.S. in Accounting from Wagner College.

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  • Jimmy Lewis
    Fund Accountant

    Mr. Lewis is a Fund Accountant at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2023, he was a Senior Associate in the Financial Services group at RSM primarily auditing hedge funds, private equity, and credit funds.

    Mr. Lewis is a Certified Public Accountant and received a B.S. and M.S. in Accounting from James Madison University.

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  • Hannah Braun
    Investor Relations Analyst

    Ms. Braun is an Investor Relations Analyst at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2022, she was the Executive Assistant to the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Clearlake Capital Group. Before transitioning to private equity, she started her career in retail management as an Executive Team Leader at Target.

    Ms. Braun received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

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  • Helene Nikas
    Administrative Coordinator

    Ms. Nikas is an Administrative Coordinator at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, she was the Executive Project Manager at Material Bank and held executive support roles within the Private Equity, Alternative Asset Management and Investment Banking space.

    Ms. Nikas studied International Criminal Justice with a focus in Human Rights at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

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  • Laura Agra
    Executive Assistant

    Ms. Agra is an Executive Assistant at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2024, she was Executive Assistant and Studio Manager at RoAndCo, a branding and design agency. She started her career as a photographer and production assistant, later managing a photography studio and working as a professional retoucher.

    Ms. Agra received a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Delaware.

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  • Elizabeth Arrasmith
    Executive Assistant

    Ms. Arrasmith is an Executive Assistant at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, she worked in film production, as a writer and producer. In addition to private equity, her work experience includes venture capital, hedge funds, new media, and start-ups.

    Ms. Arrasmith received a B.A. in Communication, with an emphasis in Public Relations, from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, at Washington State University.

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  • Elizabeth Kalvoda
    Executive Assistant

    Ms. Kalvoda is an Executive Assistant at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2024, she was the Business Development & Investor Relations Coordinator at Mudrick Capital Management, L.P. Before transitioning to financial services, she started her career in healthcare working as a Clinical Supervisor at Farmingdale Physical Therapy West.

    Ms. Kalvoda received her B.S. in Exercise Science & Kinesiology from the University of Delaware, while competing as an NCAA Division I Track & Field High Jumper.

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  • Enid Reynolds
    Executive Assistant

    Ms. Reynolds is an Executive Assistant at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2014, she was the employment verifications assistant in the Human Capital Management Department at Goldman Sachs and the Executive Assistant in the Financial Modeling Group at BlackRock.

    Ms. Reynolds received a B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from CUNY-Hunter College.

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Operating Partners and Strategic Advisors*

  • George Judd
    Lead Operating Partner

    Mr. Judd is the Lead Operating Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. He has spent his career managing turnarounds and growth strategies of under-performing businesses, including as CEO of Novo Building Products and previously as President and CEO of Blue Wolf’s former portfolio company, Snappy Air Distribution Products, where he transitioned from a Board role to CEO, rebuilt the management team, rationalized manufacturing facilities and repositioned the company for profitable growth and acquisitions.

    Mr. Judd served as CEO of PrimeSource Building Products, North America’s largest fastener company. He led PrimeSource through its transition to a private equity sponsored company while growing revenues and earnings. Mr. Judd has also served as President and COO of BlueLinx Holdings from 2004 to 2008 and was President and CEO from 2008 to 2013. He was instrumental in guiding the company’s transition from a division of Georgia-Pacific Corporation to an independent, publicly held company. During his 20-year career at Georgia-Pacific, George held a series of positions managing sales, operations, and production in the Building Products Distribution Division.

    Mr. Judd serves on the Board of Directors of Hardwood Distribution Incorporated (HDI), Sterling Site Access Solutions and serves as the Chairman of the C&C Forest Products board of managers. He is also an advisor to Ajustco. Mr. Judd has previously served on the Board of Directors of American Builders Supply, Suwannee Lumber Company, The Mulch & Soil Company and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing, PrimeSource Building Products and the Advisory Board of DOCU-SIGN. He received a B.A. from Western Connecticut State University.

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  • Don Armstrong
    Operating Partner

    Mr. Armstrong is an Operating Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners with over 40 years of experience in the Engineering and Construction industry in the areas of project management, commercial management, financial planning, management information, estimating, and learning. His fields of experience include gas plants, refineries, chemical facilities and nuclear and fossil power plants. Mr. Armstrong’s work has taken him to the Middle East, India, Africa, Europe and North America.

    Prior to joining the firm in 2018, Mr. Armstrong led project controls and risk management diligence at The State Group, a Blue Wolf portfolio company. Prior to that, he spent 36 years at Bechtel, where he was part of the firm’s leadership team and a Principal Vice President. He last served as the appointed Dean of EPC Functions for Bechtel University. Mr. Armstrong also served as Corporate Manager of Project Controls, CFO and Business Manager for Bechtel’s Power Division, Manager of Project Controls and Contracts for Bechtel’s Oil and Gas Division, Project Controls and Business Manager on a $3.5 billion refinery project in India, and Deputy Project Manager on a $1.2 billion gas plant in Abu Dhabi.

    From 2015 to 2017, Mr. Armstrong joined General Electric as a Senior Executive to assist in the creation of and operate as a key leader in the Corporate Projects Group to promote sound project management practices across the GE group of companies.

    Mr. Armstrong received a B.S. in Mathematics from Canisius College and a M.B.A. in Operations Management from Penn State University.

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  • Tina Blasi
    Strategic Advisor,
    Healthcare

    Ms. Blasi is a Strategic Advisor of Healthcare at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Throughout her career, she has proven herself as both an entrepreneur and growth-focused CEO who has combined strategic vision and financial acumen to transform healthcare companies by building a winning culture, driving innovation and mentoring world-class executives and teams. Ms. Blasi is an experienced CEO and entrepreneur with more than 30 years in the healthcare industry.

    Ms. Blasi is the former CEO of Magellan NIA, the specialty solutions division of Magellan (NASDAQ: MGLN), where she led the diversification of NIA from a Radiology Benefits Management company into six specialty areas of healthcare, grew revenues 230% to over $500 million, and increased profits from $8 million to $61 million. Prior to that, she was the co-founder of Lumenos, a pioneer company in consumer-driven healthcare. Lumenos was a whiteboard start-up company that was acquired by Anthem in 2005. Ms. Blasi also spent 10 years at Value Behavioral Health in several senior executive positions and ultimately as the COO integrating multiple acquisitions.

    Ms. Blasi also held leadership positions at Jurgovan and Blair, leading the development of a physician-sponsored HMO in northeastern Pennsylvania. She started her healthcare career as an entrepreneur in home healthcare as the founder of an agency in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

    Ms. Blasi serves on the Board of Directors of Fox Rehabilitation,  Elara Caring, RHA Health Services and CQ Medical. She received a B.S. from Bloomsburg State College.

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  • John Boncher
    Strategic Advisor,
    Industrial and
    Engineering Services

    Mr. Boncher is a Strategic Advisor of Industrial and Engineering Services at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. He has nearly three decades of experience in driving strategic growth and profitability at Cupertino Electric (CEI), one of North America’s largest electrical engineering and construction firms. As president and CEO of CEI, Mr. Boncher helped to capitalize on the company’s core strengths, positioning CEI to dominate in major commercial, solar, data center and utility markets, while expanding its geographic reach. Under his leadership, the company gained a competitive advantage by employing cutting edge technological innovation on job sites while still prioritizing high-quality service and corporate integrity. Mr. Boncher began his career at Bank of America as a commercial banking officer.

    Mr. Boncher serves on the Board of Directors of The State Group and KDB. In 2012, he was selected as an Entrepreneur of the Year finalist by Ernst & Young. He received a B.S. in Economics from the University of California at Irvine.

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  • Mark Carpenter
    Operating Partner

    Mr. Carpenter is an Operating Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners with over 33 years of professional experience, predominantly in the construction, consulting and building products industries. Mr. Carpenter has worked for public and private companies, both private equity and family owned, ranging from $50 million to over $8 billion in revenue. His experience includes working with three different private equity sponsors, executing corporate carve outs, restructurings, turnarounds and a successful IPO.

    Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Carpenter successfully led the restructuring, turnaround and ultimate sale of Dayton Superior Corporation, a leading manufacturer and distributor of engineered products for the construction industry. Under private equity ownership, as President and CEO, he implemented transformational commercial, supply chain and operational changes that raised EBITDA more than 3x and repositioned the company as the industry leader for customer service and innovation.

    Prior to that, Mr. Carpenter spent 14 years at Hanson Building Products, later renamed Forterra, one of the largest global building materials groups. He worked his way up through the company in several leadership roles, ultimately serving as President of the largest concrete pipe and precast manufacturer in North America. Mr. Carpenter led the business through a corporate carve out, into private equity ownership and through an IPO. Earlier in his career he was a management consultant, focused on acquisition integration, interim management, restructuring and operational improvement, and a construction project manager.

    Mr. Carpenter received a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Brunel University and an MBA from Henley Business School.

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  • Samantha Dwinell
    Operating Partner

    Ms. Dwinell is an Operating Partner for Human Capital at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. An accomplished global human resources leader with more than two decades of experience delivering innovative solutions to transform organizations, she has served in an array of roles, delivering results across private and public organizations in diverse industries.

    Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Dwinell was Chief People Officer for Stream Realty Partners, a national commercial real estate company, where she focused on establishing an organizational strategy and vision to drive growth and improve the employee experience. Previously, Ms. Dwinell served as Chief People Officer for Sevita, a private equity backed healthcare provider, and spent almost 20 years with Texas Instruments, where she was instrumental in creating an enterprise-wide talent review process and building the company’s first people analytics function, which leveraged HR data and analytics to improve key business outcomes. In 2023, she received OnCon’s Top 50 CHRO Icon Award.

    Ms. Dwinell graduated from Miami University with a B.A. in Economics and Sociology and received a Masters of Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois and a Master of Management and Organization Behavior from Benedictine University.

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  • David Hecht
    Operating Partner

    Mr. Hecht is an Operating Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners with over 20 years of experience in the healthcare sector, including within behavioral health, intellectual and developmental disability services, and post-acute care. He has held multiple executive leadership positions, including as a CFO and CSO, for private equity backed companies. His background includes both strategic and operational expertise, financial oversight, growth, mergers and acquisitions, and integration execution.

    Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Hecht spent seven years at RHA Health Services. During his time there, Mr. Hecht served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, leading the company’s finance and capital market’s function and helping drive the company’s expansion into multiple new markets, both through acquisition and organic growth. Prior to RHA, Mr. Hecht served as a senior vice president at Formation Capital, a vice president at Healthpro Heritage, and a management consultant at Oliver Wyman, among other roles.

    Mr. Hecht graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in Politics and received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in Healthcare Management.

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  • Jan Jerger-Stevens
    Operating Partner

    Jan Jerger-Stevens is an Operating Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners with over 25 years of professional experience in HR and Operations. Her experience ranges from public, private and equity backed organizations along with working across a wide range of sectors including building materials, manufacturing and healthcare. Jan has a successful track record of developing/implementing strategies that drive the people, culture and business goals.

    Ms. Jerger-Stevens served as the senior HR executive in a number of building material organizations with her most recent role as CHRO for Itochu Building Products where she spent two years transforming HR and prior to this, CHRO for PrimeSource Building Products. Jan was previously Vice President, Human Resources with HCSC. Ms. Jerger-Stevens was instrumental in driving HR transformation within HR and throughout the business. She previously spent eight years as Senior Vice President, Human Resources at GAF where she also served as a member of the Board of Directors. After joining GAF in 2007 as the result of the acquisition of ElkCorp, Jan was a member of the integration team and also led the successful HR transformation, driving innovative processes and programs, in areas of talent strategies and technology, employee engagement and recognition, talent acquisition, benefit/compensation and wellness program solutions, employee relations and safety initiatives. Prior to her recruitment to ElkCorp, Ms. Jerger-Stevens spent over 15 years in HR global leadership positions with Jacuzzi Brands and Ingersoll-Rand Company.

    Ms. Jerger-Stevens currently serves on the Board of Directors of Sterling Site Access Solutions. Ms. Jerger-Stevens received her MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas and her undergraduate degree in management from Defiance College in Ohio. Jan also serves on the HR Committee for the YMCA.

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  • Richard Kobor
    Operating Partner

    Mr. Kobor is an Operating Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Mr. Kobor is a senior executive with 30 years of experience in engineering-driven industrial companies. His background includes a mix of general management, financial oversight, and engineering positions at domestic and international businesses, including Fortune 500 companies, as well as smaller privately-held enterprises.

    Mr. Kobor is currently CEO of Colson Group. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, Mr. Kobor served in succession as President, Power and Specialty Tools and President, Equipment Worldwide at Snap-on Inc. In those roles, he drove strong growth via targeted acquisitions, developed new products, and reduced costs through standardizing design and rationalizing the supply chain. He also previously served as a Managing Director at Bitzer SE in Sindlefingen, Germany, where he helped to steer a $700M global company through the recession. Before that, he was president of Bitzer’s North America division. He has also been EVP of Operations at Harbour Group-ACS Group/AEC, Inc., and Director of Operations in the Carlyle Compressor Division of United Technologies-Carrier Corporation. He began his career as a Welding and Shipfitting Supervisor at General Dynamics- Electric Boat.

    Mr. Kobor serves on the Board of Directors of Petrosmith, Edge Industrial Technologies, and Colson Group. He received a B.S. in Structural Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, College of Engineering and an M.B.A. and M.S. in Engineering with Distinction from Northwestern University, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management/Robert McCormick School of Engineering.

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  • Benfield Phillips
    Strategic Advisor,
    Forest & Building Products

    Mr. Phillips is a Strategic Advisor of Forest & Building Products at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. He has over 45 years of experience in general management, management of team development, acquisition/integration, and strategy. He previously held various positions with Lowe’s Company and later became of the COO of ProBuild. While at ProBuild, he was involved in various large and small acquisitions achieving revenues of over $6 billion at market peak with 450 locations and 22,000 employees.

    Mr. Phillips serves on the Board of Directors of Finch Paper Company. He received a B.S. from North Carolina State University.

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  • Steve Sleigh
    Senior Advisor

    Dr. Sleigh is a Senior Advisor at Blue Wolf Capital Partners with decades of experience providing strategic advice on initiatives that align businesses, labor, and investors. He has served as the Fund Director for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) multi-employer pension, savings, and health plans, and has held numerous leadership positions within the labor and responsible investment sectors. His background includes experience providing strategic counsel on labor and pension issues, fundraising and deal sourcing, and portfolio company governance.

    Prior to leading the IAM benefit funds, Dr. Sleigh was a principal with the Yucaipa Companies, Director of Strategic Resources for IAM, Director of Research for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Deputy Director for the Center for Labor Management Policy Studies at the City University of New York. He served as co-chair of the Heartland Capital Strategy network for the past ten years and has been a longtime member and past president of the DC Labor and Employment Relations Association. He also previously has served as a director on the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and on the boards for Amalgamated Bank and Americold Logistics.

    Dr. Sleigh graduated with a B.A. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and received a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a doctorate in sociology from the City University of New York.

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  • Mike Sutter
    Operating Partner

    Mr. Sutter is an Operating Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners with nearly 40 years of experience in industrial companies serving diverse markets with highly differentiated operating models. His background includes a mix of general management, engineering, operations, supply chain, product management, financial oversight, and human capital development, at domestic and international businesses, including Fortune 500 companies, and privately-held enterprises.

    Prior to joining the firm in 2021, Mr. Sutter served as CEO of privately-held Airtech Vacuum, an international technology-driven solutions provider of vacuum and pressure technologies tailored to OEM’s serving rapidly growing markets such as alternative energy, medical and material handling, ultimately ending with a successful sale to a strategic buyer. Prior to that, Mr. Sutter served as CEO of privately-held Chromalox, a provider of innovate thermal processing solutions into international markets including oil and gas, power generation, and food and beverage. He led a successful sale to an international strategic buyer in 2017.

    Before that, he held a general management role in the industrial process segment of ITT, where, among other accomplishments, he pioneered the Lean Enterprise operating model in the engineered-to-order portfolio. Before joining ITT Mr. Sutter and his team drove strong top- and bottom-line growth in the global industrial pump segment of Flowserve. Earlier in career Mr. Sutter held a variety of operations and supply chain positions with SPX, Bell & Howell, and Kulicke & Soffa Industries.

    Mr. Sutter received a M.B.A. and a B.S.I.E. from Lehigh University. He earned a black belt in continuous improvement while at Bell & Howell.

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  • Chris Thomas
    Operating Partner

    Mr. Thomas is an Operating Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners with over 25 years of professional experience, predominately in the Building Products industry focused on financial and operational management. He has worked for private companies, family-owned companies, and publicly traded companies ranging from $75 million to over $300 million in revenue. His experience also includes working for three different private equity sponsors during various investment stages.

    During his time with the firm, Mr. Thomas has served as CEO of Petrosmith and served on the Board of Directors of The Mulch & Soil Company, a Blue Wolf Portfolio Company. Currently, Mr. Thomas is the CEO of Mustang Extreme Environmental Services and a member of the Board of Directors of Petrosmith and Mustang Extreme Environmental Services.

    Prior to joining the firm in 2017, Mr. Thomas successfully led the financial and operational turnaround and ultimate sale of Snappy Air Distribution Products, a Blue Wolf Portfolio Company, in late 2016. He served as both CEO and CFO during his time at Snappy.  Prior to that, Mr. Thomas also served as CFO at Sto Corp. and held executive level financial positions at Republic National Cabinet Corporation and Polyvision Corporation. He began his career with Arthur Anderson in their assurance practice focusing on emerging growth manufacturing companies with domestic and international locations.

    Mr. Thomas received a B.S. in Accounting from Auburn University and an M.B.A from Emory University.

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  • Tom Tomlinson
    Operating Partner

    Mr. Tomlinson is an Operating Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Mr. Tomlinson has over 30 years of diverse experience across multiple industries, including healthcare, consumer products, finance and aviation. He has served as a senior executive, including CEO and CFO, with public and privately owned companies.

    Prior to joining the firm in 2018, Mr. Tomlinson served as CEO of Alliance Healthcare Services, a leading healthcare provider that operates in 45 states and provides clinical care and hospital-centric outsourcing solutions within radiology, oncology and interventional pain management. Prior to joining Alliance, Mr. Tomlinson served as the CEO for Midwest Dental, and spent 10 years with the Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) in several senior roles – including CEO, President and COO, and Senior Vice President and CFO. During his tenure, he played a key role in CDI’s growth and development while creating the second-largest radiology and related services organization in the U.S. through the merger of Insight Imaging and CDI.

    Prior to that, Mr. Tomlinson spent 17 years in predominantly finance-related roles, including as Executive Vice President and CFO of Department 56, a publicly traded wholesale and retail consumer products company; and President of Harmon Solutions Group, an insurance claim outsourcing company. He has also held numerous finance and development positions with organizations such as Northwest Airlines and American Airlines.

    Mr. Tomlinson received a B.A. from the University of St. Thomas and a M.B.A. from Columbia University.

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* Senior Advisors and Operating Partners may be consultants or employees and related fees or expenses may be charged to the funds or portfolio companies. Some Senior Advisors and Operating Partners are not exclusive to Blue Wolf Capital.