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Shawn Lewis and the business of staying
An architecture graduate turned deal lawyer, Shawn Lewis now leads Vancouver’s Tricor Pacific Capital. His work stretches from Wisconsin quarries to an Irish football club, with ownership built around the people already there.
Andrew Sheiner and the value of a little more time
After seventeen years at Onex, Andrew Sheiner founded Altas Partners around a patient approach to ownership. His latest undertaking gives sixteen young Canadians time and support to explore what they might become.
Stuart Frantz and the owner's footprints
A golf entrepreneur became the leader of a company built for long ownership. Stuart Frantz's career connects the business of expansion with the people expected to make it work.
David Williams and the business of staying
He bought Merkle at 25 and spent more than three decades building it. At MRE Capital, David Williams is putting that experience to work for owners who want time, ambition, and help with the difficult middle.
Sieva Kozinsky and the business of staying
He built a marketplace for college notes, then began buying companies he hoped never to sell. At Enduring Ventures, Sieva Kozinsky is testing what happens when an owner trades the exit clock for a much longer calendar.
John Burke and the business of staying
From a Santa Clara basketball roster to the CFO’s office in Sydney, John Burke learned software from several sides. At Merit Holdings, he is putting that experience behind a promise to keep building for decades.
Anderson Fincher and the business of staying
From Heil Trailer to Dover Engineered Systems to HBM Holdings, Anderson Fincher has built a career around industrial businesses. His next chapter asks what happens when an owner plans to stay - and gives the people running those businesses room to grow.
Brian Kobylinski and the business of getting better
From 23 years at Actuant to a restructuring at Jason Industries, Brian “Koby” Kobylinski has spent his career reshaping industrial businesses. At Riverbend, he is putting that experience to work under an ownership model with time to spare.
Matthew Ritchie and the business of keeping the lights on
After years in aerospace operations, Matthew Ritchie co-founded Collective Manufacturing Group to give established shops another chapter. His first acquisitions put that promise to work, from a reopened Indiana factory to a Connecticut picnic that stayed on the calendar.
Larry Gies and the problem with goodbye
He built Madison by buying businesses, then changed course when selling them began to feel like a loss. From a borrowed $50,000 to a business school bearing his name, Larry Gies keeps returning to one question: what will last?
Jennifer Moses and the arithmetic of forever
An accountant takes the helm of a company built to keep its businesses. Jennifer Moses’s route to IMC’s CEO office puts a familiar question on a longer clock: what does it take to earn people’s trust?
Mark Hillenburg and the business of staying
He learned machining beside his father in a garage. Now Mark Hillenburg is buying manufacturing businesses with a longer horizon: keep the shops, invest in the people, and give their owners a way to retire.
Peter Brooks Is Building a Water Company With No Exit Clock
A Marine deployment, a Fulbright year in India and a string of unglamorous water jobs led Peter Brooks to an unusual business idea: buy the companies that keep water moving, then keep them for decades.
Timah Partners
Timah Partners is a Singapore-based permanent holding company that acquires essential, recurring B2B SMEs across Southeast Asia and holds them for the long term, with no intent to flip. Founded by Dennis Chua, it pairs patient capital with a CEO Succession (CEO-in-Training) program that develops the next generation of operators to run its portfolio companies. The firm positions itself as a permanent home for owners who lack a succession plan, prioritizing culture, founder legacy, and operational stewardship over quick exits. It closed a US$50 million Series A in June 2025.