
A family bar outside Chicago taught Tarrus Richardson what ownership could do. At IMB Partners, he has spent years turning that early lesson into acquisitions, enduring partnerships, and opportunities for other people to own a piece of the future.

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.
Peter Brooks left the Marines, studied water policy at Harvard, and decided the least glamorous corner of American infrastructure was the best place to build something that lasts. His pitch to the family businesses that keep the water running: sell to us and we will never sell you.