We invest in leading medium to large business which exhibit the following characteristics:
- -Enterprise value of up to $1 billion
- -First-rate management team
- -Potential for significant growth and operational improvement
- -Profitability, cash flows, and IRR above the industry average
Areas of Expertise:
- -Real Estate
- -Food, Agricultural commodities
- -Materials (including chemicals)
- -Health
- -Energy
- -Financial Services
- -Consumer & Retail
- -General Industrial
- -Professional Services
We take controlling positions as a stand-alone or co-investor with outside partners, in the companies we invest and are open to all major types of transactions, notably buyouts and buy-ins, corporate divestitures, and public to private transactions.
Creating Value in Our Portfolio
We create value in our portfolio companies on the strength of our partners unique combination of corporate and private equity experience, totaling an average of 30 years, having successfully led, as Global or Regional Chief Executives, the merger and consolidation of a number of global divisions of Forbes 2000 corporations.
For the last 10 to 15 years, the partners have served as Senior Operating Executives of a number of private equity-backed companies based in Europe and the US.
Our approach is to draw upon the Partners deep sector and operations experience to assist portfolio company managers in their efforts to maximize the value of knowledge.
We follow a detailed and rigorous process of value creation that reflects our hands-on management style. We work in close partnership with our portfolio managers in the following areas:
- -Setting strategic direction
- -Identifying new sources of growth in terms of products, markets, and technology
- -Recruiting key staff to strengthen the management team
- -Identifying and evaluating acquisitions, as part of a build-up strategy
- -Improving operations
- -Identifying and mitigating all source of risk
- -Redesigning, if need be, the business model and price and non-price customer value propositions
- -Facilitating access to the founding partners extensive network of professional and commercial contacts
- -Preparing and executing the exit plan
Recognition
Press Release: Prudent CEO Thomas Acuff is 2021 recipient of “WHO’S WHO IN THE WORLD Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award
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Current Projects
TLC Media Group LLC
Prudent is one of the founders and major investors in TLC Media Group, a next generation video production studio creating compelling content in the luxury lifestyle space.
TLC has partnered with
Jun 24, 2020 – New branding aligns with Focus on AI-Powered Digital Media and Technologies for Global Partners NEW YORK, June 24, 2020 – Icaro Media Group, the digital media technology company formerly known as VOS Digital Media Group which includes the recently-merged company SKYY..
Digital Media Group https://www.vosdmg.com for a luxury lifestyle content production initiative. VOS is a digital video exchange and technology platform. VOS recently issued this press release:
Prudent is a major investor in Luxury Life Media Group, LLC which is a leading publisher of luxury lifestyle magazines.
Wings, Water & Wheels- Holiday Issue 2017 Featuring the Dassault Falcon Jet 8X on the cover.
Luxury Life Palm Beach- Holiday Issue 2017 Featuring Supermodel Cynthia Kirchner on the cover.
One of the most recent projects in 2014 on which Prudent is the originator and an equity investor is the major high level residential neighborhood “RiverView” on the exclusive enclave Kiawah Island SC USA. Kiawah Island is a barrier island on the Atlantic coast occupying 13.5 sq miles (35 sq kilometers) and is considered one of the most prestigious waterfront communities and nature preserves in the world. It was host to the 2012 PGA Golf Tournament.
Prudent holds significant ownership in BHI BOS Management LLC, a rapidly expanding global executive search firm.
From its inception in 1993 BANISTER has experienced consistent growth and partners with some of the most respected companies in the world.
BANISTER is a global leader in Integrated Talent Management.
World class executives, professionals and corporations have trusted BANISTER with their most valued resources for twenty-five years as their provider of ‘Executive Advisory Services’, including ‘Search and Recruitment’, ‘Career Management’ and ‘Corporate Leadership Transformation’.