Frontenac (services businesses private equity firm with alumni from Goldman Sachs, Harvard, Stanford, Wharton)
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Keywords: Firms | US -- Chicago midwest (excl. Ohio, Minn.) | Venture Capital and Private Equity

Company name
Frontenac Company

Short description for overview page

PE firm focused on services businesses


Tags

Middle market, private equity, technology, healthcare, education, financial services, marketing, manufacturing, media, publishing, Goldman Sachs, Booz Allen Hamilton, Merrill Lynch, Harvard Business School, Wharton, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Cambridge University, Kellogg, Yale, Princeton


URL

http://www.frontenac.com


Description

Frontenac Company works with executives to acquire and grow middle-market companies, primarily in services businesses. Frontenac's investment philosophy is around partnering with the CEO of its portfolio company (as the companies call it, CEO1st). In this approach, the company finds an appropriate executive management team, and then both sides find the right company together. It has invested in 150+ companies since its founding. Frontenac is led by seven Managing Directors.

Industries of focus include financial services, healthcare, education/HR, manufacturing, marketing, publishing/media and technology.


Alumni connected with this company

Goldman Sachs, Booz Allen Hamilton, Merrill Lynch, Harvard Business School, Wharton, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Cambridge University, Kellogg, Yale, Princeton


Size
$1+ billion under management

City or Greater Metropolitan Area, State (and Country if not U.S.)
Chicago

Year founded
1971
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