Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP), a Foster City, CA-based growth-focused technology investment firm, bolstered its investment, operating and finance teams with new hires.
These include:
– Ben Cox and Faton Gjuka, who have joined the firm as Operating Principals,
– Michelle Ruggeri, who joined as Controller, and
– Maddison Smith and Nathan Stanley, who have joined the firm as Investment Associates.
Cox and Gjuka each bring more than 10 years of operating experience to SEP, where they will focus on portfolio companies’ go-to-market acceleration and improving their sales, marketing, product management and customer success functions.
Cox previously held several executive roles with a private equity backed midmarket software company and also led management consulting teams at Bain & Co. He is a graduate of Grace University and has an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Prior to joining SEP, Gjuka led the IoT Solutions team at C3IoT and was a management consultant at Bain & Co. He has a computer science degree from the University of Toledo and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Business School.
Michelle Ruggeri joins SEP from Marcato Capital Management, where she was VP of Finance. Prior to that, she worked at Farallon Capital. She began her career in tax at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. She is a graduate of Santa Clara University.
Prior to joining SEP, Maddison Smith worked in the Consumer Retail Group at Barclay’s Investment Bank in New York. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Terry College of Business.
Nathan Stanley worked in the technology group at Evercore before joining SEP. He is a graduate of Colorado School of Mines.
Led by Managing Partner Kyle Ryland and SEP Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer Randy Randleman, SEP is a technology-focused private equity firm that invests in middle market companies across software, technology-enabled services and hardware. The firm employs a growth-oriented partnership model with technology companies and typically invests $25-200m per transaction.
SEP has made four new enterprise software investments over the past 12 months in Kyriba, GoGuardian, Azuga and Actian.
FinSMEs
31/08/2018