1. Home
  2. Team

Two teams, one committee, and management that runs its own company.

How Pinnacle is organized, and where the decisions sit.

Structure

Where authority actually sits.

Pinnacle runs a disciplined, structured process across two teams coordinated by the Investment Committee. Below the firm, each portfolio company’s management team holds full decision-making authority over its own business.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Business development · Investments · Realizations

Responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and executing transactions, and for realizations. Its approach to evaluating an opportunity is rigorous, intimate, and disciplined.

Operations

Due diligence · Transitions · Oversight

Engaged during diligence, responsible for the transition after close, and for continuing oversight of each portfolio company thereafter.

Investment Committee

Coordination · Decision

Coordinates the M&A and Operations teams through a disciplined, structured process, and holds the investment decision.

Portfolio company management

Pinnacle believes that autonomous and empowered management is critical to the long-term success of any business.

Management teams at Pinnacle’s portfolio companies possess full decision-making authority over their businesses. They are also held accountable for day-to-day operations and for executing the strategic plan they own.

That combination — authority and accountability in the same hands — is the arrangement the firm considers non-negotiable. It is also why the operations team’s role is oversight and support rather than management by proxy.

The people

Investment and operating professionals.

Pinnacle does not currently publish individual biographies. This section is built and ready; it will be populated with real names, titles, and experience, and with nothing else.

Leadership profiles are not published

Pinnacle does not currently publish individual biographies. Inquiries reach the investment and operations teams directly, and are answered by the people who would handle the transaction.

Operating leadership

Running a Pinnacle company.

Pinnacle backs management teams and, where a portfolio company needs one, recruits into leadership roles. Executives interested in operating within the platform are welcome to make contact.

Discuss an opportunity

Have an opportunity that fits our criteria?

The firm reviews inquiries from owners, intermediaries, corporate sellers, and sponsors directly. Terms, timing, and confidentiality are discussed on a first call.