Partnering with owners and management teams to build market leaders.

Ventus has honed a highly successful approach over the last 12 years, and offer something different and bespoke to each situation.

APPROACH

Ventus has honed a highly successful approach over the last 12 years.

Partnership
Approach

Our investments are true partnerships, built on open and honest communication, collaboration, and our team’s philosophy to get work in a hands-on way together with owners and management teams regardless of role or seniority

Mission
Driven

We have over 250 years of aerospace and defense industry experience in our team, people have devoted their lives to this cause and care deeply about what we’re trying to do

Preserve
Legacy

We retain the company brands built over generations, and pride ourselves on being good custodians of a family’s legacy

Deep Sector
Expertise

Our companies benefit from the full attention of a hands-on senior team with unrivalled defense expertise, including a senior former Admiral and ex-Commander of NAVSEA, the ex-President of Ingalls Shipbuilding, a former FTSE 100 A&D CEO, and two former 35-year HII Vice Presidents

Tailored
Process

A sale process can be incredibly disruptive and damaging to a business. Our philosophy is to work around the sellers, allowing management to dictate the pace and to prioritise day-to-day operations and customers

Efficient
Diligence

We leverage our industry expert team to lead diligence internally and to take a swift and targeted commercial approach, without endless questions or overbearing third-party interference

Employee
Ownership

People and culture is at the very heart of our strategy. Under our ownership, all employees become owners alongside investors, and are provided the tools with which to build meaningful long-term financial security for themselves and their families

Flexible to Rollover
Investments

We are highly flexible with regards to rollover investments from existing shareholders

ONE OF OUR KEY DIFFERENTIATORS

Ownership for all employees

At the heart of Ventus is a unique approach to workforce hiring, retention and culture. This includes making every employee in our portfolio companies an owner in their business, from a high school graduate shop floor employee all the way up to the CEO.

Our philosophy is that broad-based employee ownership is the key to both unlocking company performance and to providing hourly wage employees with the incentives and the tools to build meaningful long-term wealth.

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