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Restoring Balance: Midwest Restoration Builds for What’s Next

In early 2023, Midwest Restoration, a home restoration company in the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin, was thriving. The company...

How PeopleFirst Leadership Powers Growth at Ascend

Ascend brings Alpine’s PeopleFirst leadership to life, showing how people-first private equity can drive growth while preserving integrity.

About Atlas: Alpine Investors’ Value Creation Team

At Alpine Investors, we believe exceptional people are at the heart of exceptional investment outcomes. Atlas, our value-creation team within Alpine O...

Looking Forward: Building a 100-Year Firm

In this excerpt from our 2026 Force for Good Report, Graham Weaver shares why the next era of private equity rewards value creation, great leadership,...

Force for Good 2026: How Two Alpine Platforms Put the Operating Rhythm to Work

See how two Alpine platforms, Aspen Standard Wealth and Guardian Restoration Partners, used the PeopleFirst Operating Rhythm to drive founder satisfac...

Force for Good 2026: Sustainability for a New Generation of Pet Parents

See how Antelope Pets is building sustainability into its operating model, from recyclable packaging to supply chain transparency, across its natural...

Force for Good 2026: Climate Risk Meets Engineering Solutions at Fuss & O’Neill

See how Fuss & O'Neill is helping clients navigate climate risk through interdisciplinary engineering solutions, from flood resilience to sea-level ri...

Force for Good 2026: Investing in People Through Cobalt Academy

Learn how Cobalt Service Partners built Cobalt Academy to train, retain, and grow skilled technicians across its national access control and security...

Force for Good 2026: Apex Gives Veterans a New Place to Serve

See how Apex Service Partners built a veteran hiring strategy that creates meaningful career pathways in residential HVAC, plumbing, and electrical se...

The Window Experts Unlock the Next Stage of Growth

Jeff Ludy built The Window Experts from a garage startup to a category leader. See how he chose Alpine to protect his team and legacy while unlocking...

Innovative Systems: A Rural Tech Giant’s Growth Journey

See how Alpine scaled Innovative Systems from a founder-led firm in South Dakota to a high-growth tech leader with a successful exit to GTCR.

Investing Intern to CEO: How Adam Jones Built a Career at Alpine

From investing intern to CEO, Adam Jones shares his unconventional path to leadership through Alpine’s Internship and CIT programs.

Why a ‘Deep Dive’ Interview Identifies A-Player Talent

The ‘Deep Dive’ interview, a key step in Alpine Investors’ approach to hiring, is a strategy to find the best talent in the business.

Oakline’s Mark Mason on Alpine’s Investor-in-Residence Program

Learn how Mark Mason transitioned from private equity to President of Oakline Properties, a national property management platform, through Alpine Inve...

Private Equity Acquisition Process: What Happens After You Sell?

What happens after you sell your business to PE? Learn what to expect from Alpine's acquisition process—from day one through long-term value creation.

Restoring Balance: Midwest Restoration Builds for What’s Next

In early 2023, Midwest Restoration, a home restoration company in the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin, was thriving. The company Coyne Bor...

Force for Good 2025: AEx Builds Leadership Community at Alpine

Alpine’s Executive Experience (AEx) connects high-performing leaders through curated peer groups and in-person summits. These small pods foster real c...

Alpine Investors’ Founding Story: The 20th Anniversary Video

Watch Founder and CEO Graham Weaver share the motivation that fueled him to get started, and what continues to steer Alpine’s growth.

The Alpine Manifesto

Learn about the key factors that contribute to Alpine becoming the best-performing private equity firm of our generation.

Q&A: Marcus Bradley’s Journey from CIT to CEO

In this Q&A, Marcus Bradley shares his path from Harvard MBA to CEO of Hmong Home Health Care—highlighting leadership lessons from Alpine’s CIT progra...

2024 Year-in-Review – Alpine Investors

Explore Alpine Investors' 2024 year in review and learn about the year's deal activity, firm accomplishments, and more.

Closing Education Gaps with FEV Tutor

Alpine acquired FEV Tutor in July 2022. FEV Tutor has been providing 1:1, high-dosage tutoring directly to schools and districts across the U.S. for m...

Alpine Investor’s 2022 Year-in-Review

This past year is one for the books at Alpine Investors. As 2023 takes shape, we’re taking the time to reflect on our achievements and...

Founder Story: How Vertex Helped King Quality Construction Grow

Jeff Brett, founder and CEO of King Quality Construction, shares his story of partnership, transformation and success alongside Vertex Service Partner...

How Mona Invests in Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

As a lawyer, entrepreneur, and author, Andrew Leon Hanna is personally and professionally dedicated to supporting underrepresented comm...

Leadership Profile: CEO-in-Residence (CIR) Vivek Kartha

Vivek Kartha is a CEO-in-Residence (CIR) at Alpine Investors where he’ll soon be leading an Alpine portfolio company with the backing o...

Alpine Investor’s 2023 Year-in-Review

Read on for our review of more key moments in 2023. Thank you to everyone who has been part of our journey thus far and here’s to our next year ahead.

Daniel Cohen on Becoming Partner, Consistently Learning and Pursuit of the Deal

Daniel Cohen loves working on and building teams. So it’s no surprise that he’s taking his leadership to the next level as one of Alpin...

Ascend Founder and CEO Is Bringing Fresh Leadership to the Rapidly Transforming CPA Industry

We caught up with David to learn about the state of the CPA industry, the game-changing platform he’s building and the sense of purpose that drives hi...

How We Prioritize People as a B Corporation

For B Corp Month this March, we’re celebrating our team’s work to maintain certification since 2019 and spotlighting how we aim to continuously improv...

Why Opsahl Dawson President Aaron Dawson Chose Ascend

Opsahl Dawson President Aaron Dawson loves solving problems. The father of three girls, he stocks his tool shed with more tools than he...

How ASG Uses the Alpine Investors’ Playbook to Grow to New Heights

From industry expertise to playbook support, to a whole community of other leaders to lean on, Alpine portfolio operators are never alo...

How ASG President Alice Song Channels Her Own Executive Experience as a Mentor to ASG CEOs

Alpine Software Group (ASG) President Alice Song embraced a career of constant learning and now she’s sharing those lessons with more than 30 ASG CEOs...

Alpine Social Ventures Fellow and Malama Health Founder Mika Eddy on Healthier Outcomes for Gestational Diabetes

Mika Eddy is a healthcare entrepreneur determined to make a difference, fueled by her own experiences with maternal health.

Geographic Expansion Through Marketing – Apex Service Partners

Business Description: Apex Service Partners is a people-focused HVAC, plumbing, and electrical services group whose goal is to partner...

Fund IX: Continuing Our Path of PeopleFirst Investing

As Alpine Investors closes on its ninth fund with $4.5B in capital commitments in an oversubscribed process, Founder and CEO Graham Weaver reflects on...

How Ingenio Rediscovered Its Purpose to Drive Growth

After years of misalignment, Ingenio found renewed purpose and double-digit growth with Alpine’s PeopleFirst leadership and the guidance of a mission-...

Building a Scalable Customer-Centric Education Business

Jason Dion shares the customer-centric approach that got him this far, and how Axcel and new CEO Sasha LeFlore will catapult Dion Training’s growth.

Evergreen’s Leaders on Being an Alpine Portfolio Company

Evergreen Services Group is a group of leading business services companies operated by our PeopleFirst leadership teams and service pro...

Leadership Profile: Evergreen Founder & CEO Jeff Totten

Jeff Totten is a builder by nature. In high school, it was a home-grown photography business; at UC Berkeley, a 400-strong investing cl...

Optima Healthcare Solutions’ Steve Mackie on Working with Alpine Investors

Where would we be without our founders? When we set out to buy a new company, our first step is a conversation with the founder. We aim...

Pursuing Literacy for All Through Wilson Language Training

Literacy and improved reading and writing skills are not just educational issues. Rather, they are issues that affect outcomes ranging from the qualit...

How Tapas Banerjee Grew Web Age Solutions by Focusing on Its People

While growing a thriving education company can require a lot of its founder, Tapas Banerjee stayed dedicated by knowing that success fo...

Tyler Hoffman on Lessons Learned and What’s Next After Leading at Radicle Health

As he ends one chapter as Group CEO of ASG’s Radicle Health and preps for the next one leading a soon-to-be-launched Alpine platform, Tyler Hoffman re...

Years in the Making: Steve Heckler on Building a Relationship with Alpine

Steve Heckler shares lessons learned as a founder and recounts Accelebrate’s winding path to Alpine Investors.

To CEO to Partner and Back Again – Will Adams

From his early days mowing lawns in his Cincinnati neighborhood to his new role leading Alpine’s Orion Group, Will Adams has always lov...

Founder Profile: Vinod Dega

Over close to two decades building the online education platform EduMind, co-founder Vinod Dega has learned a few lessons of his own—fr...

AOG’s Matt Beaudette on Building a Customer Success Strategy

Alpine Operations Group’s customer experience expert Matt Beaudette shares why customer success is vital to any company’s growth and what’s behind the...

Behind the Deal: Q&A with Matheson Advisors’ David Cohen About What Makes a Winning M&A Process

David S. Cohen, Managing Director of Matheson Advisors, shares an inside look of his experience as a sell-side banker in a recent deal with Alpine Inv...

Force For Good 2024: Carbon Footprint at Alpine HQ

In 2023, we completed a third-party assessment of the 2022 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of Alpine (including Alpine Operations Group).

A Partnership for the Long Term: Evergreen and Alta Vista Technology

The partnership between Evergreen, an Alpine Investors-backed family of leading services and software companies, and Alta Vista Technology, a national...

ASV Fellow Touré Owen on Building Black Barbershop Brand Mobo

Meet Touré Owen, an ASV fellow and founder of Mobo. With his Oakland, California-based Black barbershop brand, Owen strives to build community, provid...

About the Alpine Social Ventures (ASV) Fellowship Program

The Alpine Social Ventures Foundation runs a program, Alpine Social Ventures (ASV), designed to foster the development of organizations...

How Alpine Social Ventures Equips Working Trees with Room to Grow

The team at Working Trees is all about using trees as a silent, unassuming solution to some of the world’s most pressing problems.

CIT Abby Chao on the Logistics of Running 3 Businesses Remotely

Abby Chao is the CEO of three software businesses, all of which are operating companies of Alpine Software Group (ASG), Alpine Investor...

Big Picture Views – Keri Dixon

Keri Dixon can speak product, build financial models, and diligence companies. But if she’s learned anything from mechanical engineerin...

From The Ground Up – Bess Yount

Bess Yount first connected with Alpine about a role she didn’t really want—and quickly found herself designing one she did. The Stanfor...

Sourcing His Dream Job – Tyler Frances

Tyler Frances has found his fit. The 25-year-old sourcer says he’s discovered a niche at the intersection of business and people relati...

Building His Own Path – Max Puyanic

Max Puyanic left behind a promising investment banking career for a move to Israel—which led to even bigger career achievements. Then h...

Force For Good Report – 2022

Read our 2022 Force For Good Report Here At Alpine, we consider ourselves pioneers in people-driven private equity, which means our wor...

Evergreen Builds Lasting Business Legacies for MSPs

Learn how a founder’s legacy lives on through Evergreen—preserving people, culture, and growth in over 100 managed IT services and MSP businesses nati...

Leadership Profile: Partner Jake Brodsky

Jake Brodsky first joined Alpine Investors to learn the skills needed to start his own business. He only expected to stay for a year. T...

From Investment to Exit: How Mindful Leads with Customer Experience

Under Alpine ownership, Mindful added over 30% to both its employee population and total active clients.

Leadership Profile: VP of Operations Leslie Foard

Leslie Foard believes that humility, a strong work ethic and authentic connection to an audience can catapult a career.

Leadership Profile: Trucker Tools’ CEO Kary Jablonski

Learn how Trucker Tools CEO Kary Jablonski used Alpine’s CEO-in-Training (CIT) program to launch her executive career in SaaS.

Leadership Profile: Head of Capital Markets Jack Armstrong

In reflecting on his path to Alpine and creating a distinct way to fuel the firm’s deals, Jack Armstrong shares why his passion for the people side of...

Alpine Investors’ 2022 Annual Growth Summit

It’s a wrap on this year’s Growth Summit, which brought Alpine Investors and our portfolio leaders together in the Bay Area in late Oct...

Podcast – Graham Weaver on Bloomberg’s Master in Business

Graham Weaver, the Founder and CEO of Alpine Investors, joins Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz on his podcast to discuss private equ...

Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

Learn about the different employee resource groups (ERGs) at Alpine HQ, where everyone—no matter their identity—can find a home.

Business as a Tool for Good – Emily Branton

Emily Branton was raised by entrepreneurs. So it should come as no surprise that the small-town girl from Canada has forged her own ent...

Q&A: How Alpine’s Director of IT Prepares for the Unexpected

Alpine’s Director of IT Bhupen Tandel is accustomed to urgency. In his 25 years in the industry, the father of three has managed...

Mi Tribu Founders on Prenatal & Postpartum Care in LatAm

Magdalena Ramírez and Sebastián Espinoza reflect on founding Mi Tribu, using technology and a digital group care approach to innovate in the maternal...

ASV Fellow Drew Barvir on Founding Sonar, an AI-Based Mental Health Platform Tackling the Youth Mental Health Crisis

Drew Barvir’s reflects on founding Sonar, using AI and chat-based technology to reach teens where they are and leveraging the professional connections...

A Q&A with ASG’s Steve Reardon on When (And Why) to Sell a Business

As someone who’s been a founder himself, Steve Reardon approaches any exit proposition with a fresh perspective.

Inspiring New Career Paths for Young Women Through Alpine Investors’ Future Female Leaders Summit 2024

The Alpine team held a mentorship program for young women that culminated in an in-person summit to experience guidance from top professionals in the...

Graham Weaver’s 3 Surprising Hiring Lessons Learned Over His 22 Years at Alpine

Through research, focusing on our bright spots, and (sometimes painful) trial and error, we learned to eschew many conventional hiring beliefs and pra...

As One Door Closes: IDC Founder Jerry Fields on Leadership, Retirement and Choosing Cobalt Service Partners

Jerry shares what it was like to start a business as a teenager, how a few emails changed the course of the company and why he decided Cobalt was the...

State Trails, Water Solutions and Wildfire Prevention: 4 Ways Trilon Group Built Stronger Communities in 2022

Trilon is home to more than 2,000 highly skilled, expert staff who work with government agencies to plan, repair, and expand existing infrastructure w...

Leadership Profile: CEO Soumya Nettimi

With an MBA from Stanford GSB and an investing background from Blackstone, Soumya Nettimi doubled the team at PracticePanther, a Paradi...

How the PeopleFirst Leadership Program’s Vision and Strategy Helped Aplos

In joining the Alpine portfolio, Aplos and its leadership team underwent the PeopleFirst leadership program to help grow its business to new heights.

AirDNA Launches PeopleFirst Leadership Program

AirDNA, a leading provider of global short-term rental data and business intelligence software, partnered with Alpine in early 2022 and welcomed Demi...

How Piedmont Door Solutions Found the Right Partner in Cobalt

Discover how Piedmont Door Solutions’ President and CEO Chris Mitchell grew Piedmont Door Solutions into an industry leader and found the right privat...

Julia Winston: Bringing Humanity to Private Equity

From culture-building to scaling PeopleFirst, learn how Alpine's Community Manager is reshaping how private equity engages people.

Escape Expands Its Impact and Legacy with Alpine

When Escape Technology’s founder stepped back, Alpine helped the K–12 ERP provider go national—backing a new president, investing in talent, and expan...

Force for Good 2025: Medusind Unites with PeopleFirst Leadership

Medusind CEO Jose Rivero used Alpine Investor's PeopleFirst approach to unite a global team around a shared culture. Through leadership training, team...

Force for Good 2025: Trilon Leads on Workplace Safety Standards

Trilon Group is rethinking health and safety through a cultural lens—empowering employees, using smarter reporting tools, and launching a portfolio-wi...

Force for Good 2025: Evergreen Champions Women in Leadership

Evergreen Services Group is advancing women in leadership through intentional hiring practices, mentorship, and its Women in Leadership Summit. With 5...

Force for Good 2025: Elevating Ethics Across Alpine Companies

Alpine partnered with Ethisphere to create a customizable code of conduct for portfolio companies—empowering employees to speak up, report concerns, a...

Force for Good 2025: Coaching Culture Powers Astra’s Growth

Astra CEO Alberto Gomez believes leadership coaching benefits everyone—from executives to frontline managers. By bringing PeopleFirst coaching to over...

Leadership Profile: Principal Jacob Zodikoff

Alpine Investors Principal Jacob Zodikoff gives insight into his career with the San Francisco-based firm and what he’s learned about himself while le...

Leadership Profile: Head of Marketing Audrey Harris

Alpine Investors’ Head of Marketing Audrey Harris has spent the last 5+ years scaling the marketing function alongside the firm’s growth. Here, Harris...

Leadership Profile: CEO Christina Martinez

Christina Martinez has always been committed to impact. As she considered her first career move, teaching felt like the perfect way to...

Working Toward Equitable Workforces with AirDNA

Learn how AirDNA used Alpine Investors’ Playbook to create a plan for its diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) programming.

Leadership Profile: ASG CEO Steve Reardon

From an outside perspective, Steve Reardon has already lived “the dream.” He’s a passionate photographer, golfer, and cyclist who has f...

Leadership Profile: Partner & CFO Dorothy Walter

Dorothy Walter is a renaissance woman. She studied both economics and art history at Vassar; she’s lived in the U.S., Russia, and throu...

The Next Level – Thomas Michael

When Thomas Michael was fresh out of college and living in his hometown of Hamburg, Germany, a stroke of luck put him on the path that...

TEAM CEO Josh Greenberg on What Makes Alpine Different

From industry expertise to playbook support, to a whole community of other leaders to lean on, Alpine portfolio operators are never alo...

Best Of Both Worlds – Patrick Eble

When Patrick Eble was about to graduate from Princeton, he faced a difficult decision between starting a career and being a world-class...

Building Brands of Lasting Value – Wendy Wen

Wendy has always chased what excites her, and with big ambitious goals. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Wendy moved to the US when...

Executive Coach George Stubbs on PeopleFirst

Alpine Investors PeopleFirst consultant and coach George Stubbs shares his perspective on why prioritizing people is core to Alpine’s success.

Ascend’s CPO Erin Stahmer on Rethinking Career Paths

Erin Stahmer shares how she and David Wurtzbacher are taking a PeopleFirst approach to transforming the accounting industry, why she’s passionate abou...

Innovative Systems COO Amanda Sayigh on Team Building

Innovative Systems' Amanda Sayigh shares lessons from her Alpine CEO-in-Training (CIT) journey, the power of hiring great people and why parenting is...

Business Growth Strategies: Two Pillars for Lasting Success

Alpine Operation Group (AOG)’s Vice President Erin Ruck breaks down the two foundational factors for growth within any business, explains solutions to...

Q&A with Haley Van Cleve on Her Journey from Associate to VP

Hear from Alpine associate turned Partner Haley Van Cleve about the power of mentorship and what motivates her impressive career growth.

Leadership Profile: Charlie Pratt, CRO of Homebot

Charlie Pratt, CRO of Homebot, shares what he’s learned from working with experts and the importance of leading with trust.

About Our CFO Program

Alpine Investors’ Chief Financial Officer (CFO) program identifies the next generation of finance leaders and places them in CFO positions across Alpi...

Growth Summit 2023 – Alpine Investors

At the 2023 Growth Summit in Sonoma, Alpine Investors led workshops focused on organic growth and increasing revenues while building community at our...

Ethisphere 2023 Year-in-Review

Explore how Ethisphere honored 135 ethical firms, launched a new accessible platform, hosted global events, and more in 2023.

About Our Internship Program – Alpine Investors

In this video, hear from former interns and leaders about the Alpine internship experience and the career paths they chose after graduation.

Investing in Sustainability with Trilon Group and Alta Planning

Learn how Trilon Group, an Alpine-backed civil engineering and infrastructure consulting firm platform, invests with sustainability in mind.

Setting Lofty Goals… And Achieving Them – April Smith

Partner and Head of Investor Relations and Fundraising, April Smith, opens up about what it takes to raise a multi-billion-dollar fund.

Schooled in Adversity & Committed to Truth – Ali Jenab

Explore how Ali Jenab is using Alpine's CEO-in-Residence (CIR) program to search for his next big executive opportunity.

Supporting the Human Services Industry with Radicle Health

Radicle Health, a platform for human services software companies that is part of Alpine Software Group (ASG) and backed by Alpine Inves...

Mind The Gap with Alpine Software Group (ASG)

Read how founder-friendly Alpine Software Group (ASG) is backing software firms outside of Silicon Valley.

Integrity and Influence – AJ Brown

AJ Brown, President and CEO of Apex Service Partners, shares his unlikely journey to running an industry-leading national platform.

From Dorm Rooms to Boardrooms – Josh Greenberg

Josh Greenberg, CEO of TEAM Services Group, reflects on his journey with Alpine and the impact-driven mission that fuels him.

Drylux Founders Ben and Robert Horne on Putting People First

Brothers Ben and Robert Horne started the Arizona-based restoration company Drylux Restoration, and they’re joining Guardian Restoration Partners, a n...

Why I Started Alpine

Our Founder and CEO Graham Weaver shares why he started Alpine Investors and what shaped Alpine’s people-driven culture.

Day In The Life of an Intern: Dhruv Mohnot

Hear from Alpine intern and Harvard grad Dhruv Mohnot who will join Alpine as a full-time analyst this September.

Cleo’s Story of Customer Success

Cleo's professional services business was struggling. Learn how the Alpine team helped restructure Cleo's pricing models to increase revenue.

How Ascend Expedited Engagement Using Alpine’s PeopleFirst Approach

Learn how Ascend’s PeopleFirst leadership model is transforming careers and accelerating growth for entrepreneurial CPAs.

Changing the Face of Leadership Through Alpine Investors’ CEO-in-Training Program

How Alpine Investors is changing the face of leadership—and transforming the path to CEO—by radically changing the way we recruit, hire, and develop t...

AOG’s Roger Breum on Demand Generation Best Practices and How the Fundamentals Drive Organic Growth

Alpine Operations Group (AOG)’s Head of Demand Generation Roger Breum shares why effective messaging, segmentation and targeting strategies can help a...

How to Develop a Scorecard to Find A-Player Talent

Creating a Scorecard, a key step in Alpine Investors’ approach to hiring, is a strategy to find the best talent in the business. Here’s how to create...

Alpine Investors’ Annual Retreat 2023

In this video, you’ll hear from Partner Matt Moore and VP of Operations Leslie Foard on what made this year’s retreat in San Diego so special.

Why LMC Advisors Partnered With Ascend

Lee Cohen, Founder of LMC, shares how partnering with Ascend allowed them to leverage resources and expertise to achieve a vision beyond what was once...

What is PeopleFirst?

Updated in February of 2025. “It’s really easy to teach private equity. It’s really hard to teach culture and values....

Just Getting Started – Frankie Costa

Frankie Costa explains what drew him to a services business, the importance of stakeholder input when making change, and why he’s so energized by the...

IN PARTNERSHIP FOR PEOPLE – Roger Musick

Roger Musick is all about connection—with community, customers, and his staff of over 200 at Innovative Systems. After 22 years as CEO...

Building Environments to Help Teams Thrive – Marlena Slowik

Marlena Slowik believes that operating a business is a team sport. Her passion for building effective teams has inspired the University...

Foothold Technology’s Marlowe Greenberg on Why Alpine Investors Was the Right Partner

Where would we be without our founders? When we set out to buy a new company, our first step is a conversation with the founder. We aim...

Hear From PeopleFirst Leaders About Our Distinct Leadership Approach

Our leaders set us apart. At Alpine Investors, we believe in the power of potential, in building people up, and in giving our emerging...

What the Next 20 Years of People-Driven Private Equity Will Look Like

We’re proud of our impact so far, and we can do more to measure that impact and to progress over time. As leaders in people-driven priv...

About Our PeopleFirst Operating Philosophy

At Alpine Investors, we’re unleashing heroes. Our PeopleFirst operating philosophy comes to life in every aspect of our firm, from recr...

Alpine Investors’ Founders on Building a New Kind of Private Equity Firm

Alpine’s first office was a San Francisco pizza parlor. Back in 2001, our three founders, Will Adams, Dan Sanner, and Graham Weaver, sp...

How Homebot Prioritized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in 2022

At the start of 2022, Homebot’s VP of People Operations Caroline Ellis, CEO Charlie Pratt and their team reflected on where their organ...

Bridging the Gap Between Investor and Operator – Homebot

Business Description: Homebot is a client-for-life portal that maximizes repeat and referral business for lenders by empowering consume...

Connecting Software and Social Impact – Beth Berger

Beth Berger traveled the world for Google before GSB led her to Alpine. Now, one year into her role as CEO of Exym, the Brown graduate...

Finding A Community of Experts in Growth – Jerimi Ford

Jerimi Ford knew it was time for some outside help. After 22 years as CTO of Transcendent, he recognized the increasing demand for his...

Closing the Rural Tech Gap – Innovative Systems

Authored by Mark Strauch, Founding Partner at Alpine. This article was originally published in Middle Market Growth. Roger Musick is t...

3 Practices to Help You Become the Best in the World

This post was originally published on Alpine Investors’ Founder Graham Weaver’s blog and was excerpted from his speech at Alpine Invest...

Q&A: Founding Partner Mark Strauch

Mark Strauch started his career chasing—and eventually, living—a dream of leading businesses. But in 2012, he decided to change gears....

Q&A: Founding Partner Billy Maguy

Alpine Founding Partner Billy Maguy reflects on his years with the firm, sharing the challenges he’s tackling and his goals for the future.

Q&A: Partner Matt Moore

With a clear sense of purpose and endless energy for people, Matt Moore could have followed several paths, but he’s chosen opportunitie...

Q&A: Founding Partner Dan Sanner

Six months out of college and thousands of miles from home, Alpine Partner Danny Sanner was just 22 years old when he found himself running a company.

Q&A: Rachel Green’s Path From MBA to CEO

From Harvard to Aetna to Stanford GSB, and now as CEO at TEAM Risk Management Strategies, Rachel Green expands on her transition from C...

Q&A: NetGain CEO Tim Burke

Tim Burke approached his twenties as a learning opportunity. After a degree in history and two years at Teach For America, he realized...

Q&A: Charles Rutstein’s Transition from CEO-in-Residence to CEO

Charles Rutstein operated a public company, achieved a successful PE-backed company exit, published a book, and served on public and pr...

Other Resources

Ascend brings Alpine’s PeopleFirst leadership to life, showing how people-first private equity can drive growth while preserving integrity.

At Alpine Investors, we believe exceptional people are at the heart of exceptional investment outcomes. Atlas, our value-creation team within Alpine O...

In this excerpt from our 2026 Force for Good Report, Graham Weaver shares why the next era of private equity rewards value creation, great leadership,...

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