Boathouse Capital

Description

Energy Planning Associates Corp (“EPAC”) is a custom manufacturer of energy efficient lighting fixtures for commercial applications. The company's products improve the efficiency of lighting produced by fluorescent and light-emitting diode (LED) lamps in order to reduce the fixtures in use and lower energy consumption. EPAC offers more than 300 products for indoor and outdoor applications and is a supplier to several of the world's leading lighting manufacturers and lighting contractors.

At Boathouse, we endeavor to invest in the highest quality lower middle market businesses and management teams. In making investment decisions, we never chase high returns if it means taking on inappropriate levels of risk. Our experience has taught us that in the mezzanine and equity co-invest asset classes, success is more a function of capital preservation than high returns on any one investment.

Ken has over 30 years of experience in the small and middle market investing business. He was most recently a Principal at American Capital, Ltd., where he opened the Philadelphia office in 2000. While there, he grew the office to 11 people and oversaw investment operations that deployed nearly $1 billion in 24 transactions. Before American Capital, Ken was a General Partner of Meridian Venture Partners, a private equity firm in Radnor, PA. Prior to that, Ken led the commercial and industrial middle market investment banking practice at Berwind Financial.

Hawke Aerospace Holdings is the parent company of helicopter maintenance provider Uniflight, air medical operator Keystone Med-Flight and Aviation Services Unlimited, which provides tactical airlift services primarily to law enforcement agencies and utility companies. Headquartered in Morgantown, Pennsylvania, Hawke Aerospace Uniflight division is one of the leading independent helicopter MRO providers and is one of just 12 companies to receive Bell Helicopter’s “Platinum” rating, its highest vendor rating.

The Boathouse principals have extensive and successful experience making investments "up and down the balance sheet": control buyouts, senior term loans, and most everything in between. As a result, we have the broad perspective to be a resource to management teams making important financial and operating decisions. Boathouse doesn't seek to run businesses but rather to partner with strong management teams that excel at independently executing on day-to-day company operations.

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