STERLING PARTNERS  Primary Navigation ABOUT WHAT WE LOOK FOR TEAM NEWS CONTACT PARTNER LOGIN INSPIRED GROWTH ABOUT STERLING PARTNERS IS A DIVERSIFIED INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOUNDED IN 1983 AND BASED IN CHICAGO. The firm started with four young entrepreneurs investing in companies with capital raised from friends and family. With early success, the founders of the firm started raising institutional funds in 2000. Sterling’s institutional fund practice focused primarily on control investments in founder-run, middle market companies in the healthcare services, education, and business services sectors. Sterling continues to manage a portfolio of companies across its funds, leveraging the firm’s deep domain expertise, focus on transformational growth, entrepreneurial roots, and access to world-class human capital to add value. In 2015, Sterling partnered with Strada Education Network to establish the Sterling Partners Education Opportunity Fund (EOF). With a separate investment team and shared operations, EOF represented an expansion of Sterling’s activity set into single industry investment strategies. Not long thereafter, Sterling formed Sterling Partners Equity Advisors (SPEA) and Sterling Partners Quantitative Investments (SPQI) with established veterans in a variety of liquid market investment strategies. For its new investment activities outside of EOF, in 2017, the firm shifted from the blind-pool, non-industry specific, middle market fund business into a multi-asset investment management platform investing across a variety of strategies. Today, Sterling invests internal and third party capital on a deal-by-deal basis across a variety of industries, growth stages, and structures, and backs managers across an array of asset classes. We look to invest in a wide variety of companies in various stages of growth – from early stage, high growth businesses to mature, profitable companies – across several industries. We make control, non-control, and preferred equity investments with both internal and outside capital. Sterling is an investor in Speedwagon, which operates independently. WHAT WE LOOK FOR PRIVATE EQUITY ASSET MANAGEMENT OUR TEAM STRATEGIES: ALL STERLING PRIVATE EQUITY AVATHON CAPITAL SP EQUITY ADVISORS SP QUANTITATIVE INVESTMENTS '87 TITLE: ALL MANAGING DIRECTOR OPERATING PARTNERS & ADVISORS PRINCIPAL VICE PRESIDENT DIRECTOR SENIOR ASSOCIATE ASSOCIATE Courtney Altman Kiley Taslitz Anderson Nishaad Balachandran Jon Barber Eric Becker Doug Becker Renee Berghoff Michael Brown Lara Compton Shawn Domanic Mike Drai Emal Dusst Jeff Elburn Rick Elfman Avi Epstein Elyssa Fisher Chris Hoehn-Saric Jeffrey Izenman Brian Kabot Lauren Kaiser Jeffrey Keith Tim Knight Whitney Krutulis Kelsey Lawrie Sam Leibovitz Luke Mishu Zachary Ozog Rob Polston Jason Rosenberg Jason Ryder John Schattenfield Nathan Schmidt, CFA Brian Schwartz Joe Shroyer Rafael Sia Kevin Silverman, CFA Steven Taslitz Dr. Francisco J. Vaca Shoshana Vernick Stefan Weitz Desmond Werthman Lauren Yeager Operating partners are independent contractors and are not employees of Sterling Fund Management, LLC or its affiliates and are therefore not part of Sterling’s compliance program. Operating partners are engaged to provide operational support, specialized operations, and consulting services to or in connection with funds managed by Sterling or portfolio companies in connection with the identification, acquisition, holding, improvement and disposition of such portfolio companies. These services may include support to single investment vehicles, Sterling managed funds or their portfolio companies regarding, among other things, the portfolio company’s management, supply chain, revenue, finance, human capital management, IT, regulatory matters, and similar operational matters. ’87 team members are employees or independent contractors of Sterling Direct LLC and are not employees of Sterling Fund Management, LLC or its affiliates and are therefore not part of Sterling’s compliance program. ’87 team members are engaged to provide operational support, specialized operations, and consulting services primarily to or in connection with portfolio companies that are deemed not to be clients for regulatory purposes, though they may also provide services to portfolio companies of funds managed by Sterling. These services may include branding and marketing, supply chain, revenue, and human capital management. NEWS RESULTS PHYSIOTHERAPY ACQUIRED BY UPSTREAM REHABILITATION August 2, 2021 STERLING PARTNERS COMPLETES SALE OF TRAFFIC CONTROL LEADER, STATEWIDE SAFETY SYSTEMS SCHOOL OF ROCK IN FORBES June 9, 2021 READ MORE NEWS CONTACT Contact Form Navigation I WANT TO: ASK A QUESTION JOIN THE TEAM Second Navigation ABOUT WHAT WE LOOK FOR TEAM NEWS CONTACT LEGAL Copyright © 2021 Sterling Partners.