Navigator Equity Partners, LLC.
 

Navigator Equity Partners, LLC is dedicated to organizing and investing in acquisitions or recapitalizations of successful businesses. Transactions provide liquidity to existing owners while positioning the company for future growth and delivering exceptional returns. We partner with high quality management teams to successfully operate businesses under the highest ethical standards.

Navigator Equity Partners, LLC., (Navigator) manages Navigator Growth Partners, LP., a private equity fund.

Navigator focuses on businesses with annual revenues approaching $10MM to over $200MM. Ideal companies have prior year EBITDA in excess of $1MM.

W. Joseph Imhoff

is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Navigator and a member of its Board of Managers. Mr. Imhoff has been a leader and initiator of acquisitions and strategic joint ventures for over 30 years as both a principal and an operating officer. His extensive operational and acquisition experience comes from the following leading companies: Hebi Health Care AB, where he served as Chairman and was a lead investor in this Swedish healthcare company; Hagemeyer Foods, Inc. , a specialty food company which he founded and grew as CEO from zero to over $300 million in sales and EBITDA in excess of $20 million in five years; Jim Walter Corp. , where he served as Group Vice President and Chief International Officer for this home builder and building materials manufacturing company; W. R. Grace & Co. , where he served as Group Vice President of the consumer products and services group and group operations officer for several subsidiaries; and Borden Inc. , where he served as a Senior Marketing and Operations Officer for several Chicago based food subsidiaries. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and is Chairman of Coffin Turbo Pump, Inc. and Compass Water Solutions, Inc. He also served on the board of CK Franchising, Inc. and Project Leadership Associates, Inc. and represented Navigator's interest in Omni-flight Helicopters, Inc. and Digney York Associates, LLC at the board level.

Bernard B. Markey

is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Navigator and a member of its Board of Managers. He was a General Partner with Meridian Venture Partners prior to co-founding Navigator. Mr. Markey has led all aspects of the private equity investment process including making new investments, assisting in building portfolio companies, and in exiting investments through sales and initial public offerings. He serves as a director of Universal Environmental Services, LLC as a Manager of Advance Wireless Telecom, LLC and of Cornerstone Franchise Group, LLC, the parent of FirstLight HomeCare, LLC. He was Chairman of Project Leadership Associates, Inc. and HTE, Inc., a NASDAQ traded company. He has served on the board of numerous private companies including CK Franchising, Inc., Digney York Associates, LLC, and Coffin Turbo Pump, Inc. Mr. Markey is past Chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Venture Group, the predecessor to the MAC Alliance. Mr. Markey is a graduate of Villanova University and received his Masters in Management degree from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.

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