Guidepost Growth Equity has appointed Nate Machado as Operating Partner, and Taylor Doherty and Reginald Seawright as Vice Presidents. Additionally, Steve Brown has been promoted to Vice President.
Macado will lead the Value Creation Group which works closely with Guidepost entrepreneurs to provide functional, industry and stage relevant operational expertise and capabilities that portfolio companies can leverage to drive continued growth.
Previously, he was a Senior Operations Executive at Abry Partners, where he focused on enhancing portfolio company performance through operational improvement and due diligence. His former board involvement includes SiteLock, StackPath, illumifin, and Alvaria. Additionally, Nate was a consultant at Deloitte focusing on M&A and operational improvement and held operating roles at GE and Wayfair Inc.
Machado received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BS from the United States Military Academy.
Doherty, Seawright, and Brown will focus on originating, evaluating, and managing growth equity investments within the application and infrastructure software and technology-enabled and data services sectors.
Before joining Guidepost, Seawright was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, working on various private equity and growth strategy projects across the US and Europe. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School, a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from University of Cambridge and a BS in Business Administration from Friedrich-Alexander University in Nuremberg, Germany.
Doherty spent eight years in operating roles at digitally-native and eCommerce companies. He was an early employee of Harry’s, the men’s grooming brand, where he worked in operations and corporate development. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from Duke University.
Brown joined Guidepost in 2016. With seven years of growth equity investing experience, he has been actively involved with companies in the financial technology, enterprise software, infrastructure, cloud and application services sectors. He has a BA in Economics from Middlebury College.
