HCI Managing Partner makes Executive Chairman switch

Dan Dickinson, Managing Partner at HCI Equity Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm that focuses on partnering with founder-owned distribution, manufacturing and service companies, is to transition to the role of Executive Chairman. 

Dan Dickinson, Managing Partner at HCI Equity Partners (HCI), a lower middle market private equity firm that focuses on partnering with founder-owned distribution, manufacturing and service companies, is to transition to the role of Executive Chairman. 

As part of a planned management reorganisation, Doug McCormick, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, will now lead the firm, and will be joined by Scott Gibaratz, Partner, and Bob Hund, Operating Partner, to lead HCI’s operations, investments and strategic direction.
 
Dickinson will continue to assist McCormick in overseeing HCI’s management company, strategy, continued deployment of its most recent fund, and investor relations. McCormick will work alongside Gibaratz, who leads the firm’s transaction processes, and Hund, who oversees the operations team, to continue deploying HCI’s strategy of portfolio company consolidation, organic growth and extensive operational engagement. 

Each partner has held leadership positions at industrial businesses previously in their careers and, within HCI, they have overseen 11 platforms over the last decade that have collectively completed 36 add-on acquisitions.