Altus Capital Partners, a private equity investment firm focused on niche middle market manufacturing companies in the US, has hired three professional staff members.
Russell J Greenberg, co-founder and managing partner, says: “We will continue to invest in resources as we move ahead in investing Altus Capital Partners II and managing our portfolio. These three additions to our staff, at both our Connecticut and Illinois offices, bring additional depth to our investment and support teams.”
The new hires are:
Senior associate Scott Johnson joined Altus Capital this month. He has over five years of combined private equity and M&A experience, and prior to joining Altus Capital worked for Parthenon Capital Partners and Performance Equity Management. At Performance Equity Management, Johnson completed direct investments and fund investments across a variety of company sizes and industry sectors. Johnson began his career at Deloitte Consulting, where he focused on M&A transactions within Deloitte’s strategy and operations practice.
Associate Mike Barry started his career as an analyst in the investment banking group of BB&T Capital Markets, where he worked on both buy-side and sell-side M&A, leveraged buyout, and equity capital markets transactions across a broad range of industries. He will work in the firm’s Lincolnshire, Illinois office.
Assistant controller Joseph A Melo joined Altus Capital in March with over nine years of accounting, reporting, operations and client service experience in the private equity industry. Joseph was most recently at the Morgan Stanley private equity administration arm, where he was a fund controller in New York City. He has extensive knowledge of buyout, fund of funds, venture capital and private equity fund accounting and managing all aspects of financial operations.
