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Boardwalk Capital is a lower middle market private equity firm founded by successful investors and business builders committed to helping exceptional management teams achieve the next phase of their growth. We partner with key stakeholders who share our values, vision, and desire to create something special together.

Boardwalk invests in opportunities where our experience and skill sets provide strong conviction and the ability to effect meaningful change. We provide valuable strategic guidance, time-tested operational expertise, sophisticated financial acumen, deep domain knowledge, and invaluable relationships in addition to capital.

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Our unique strategic, financial, and operational playbook is born of a long and diverse track record of accelerated value creation. We refer to this approach as The Boardwalk Vectors of Growth^TM.

OUR DIFFERENCE

Boardwalk brings decades of experience across multiple industries, geographies, investment cycles, and transaction types. We leverage the learnings, resources, and networks of these experiences to help our partners drive our shared success.

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Jordan Gnat
Founder & Managing Partner

Rob Scaramella
Founder & Managing Partner

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Meet our Founders

Jordan Gnat and Rob Scaramella are experienced investors and business builders with complimentary backgrounds and common values. We seek to find partners who value our help and involvement as much as we do theirs.

Why Boardwalk?

Partnership & Teamwork: The Foundation of Success

Great outcomes start with great partnerships. Boardwalk Capital aligns interests, fosters collaboration, and works as a team to overcome challenges and achieve shared success.

Strategic Execution with Transparency & Integrity

Boardwalk Capital combines thoughtful planning with disciplined execution, ensuring clear communication, accountability, and integrity in every investment decision.

Flexibility, Creativity & Enjoying the Journey

No two opportunities are the same. Boardwalk embraces adaptability, innovative problem-solving, and the joy of building successful businesses alongside great people.

Investment Strategy

What role does Boardwalk Capital play after investing in a company?

Boardwalk takes an active role in strategic planning, operational improvements, team building, and financing, ensuring that portfolio companies have the support and expertise needed to scale effectively.

What is the Boardwalk Beer Test^TM?

Boardwalk Capital believes strong partnerships are built on shared values and mutual respect. The Boardwalk Beer Test^TM is an informal but crucial measure—partners should be people they genuinely enjoy working with and trust.

Does Boardwalk Capital only invest in majority control deals?

While Boardwalk primarily seeks control, majority equity investments, we remain flexible in structuring deals to align with partners’ needs, ensuring a mutually beneficial and strategic partnership.

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Investment Criteria

Does Boardwalk Capital invest in public companies?

Yes, we consider public take-private transactions as part of the investment strategy.

What key attributes does Boardwalk Capital look for in investments?

Ideal investments have strong market fundamentals, aligned management teams, accretive roll-up potential, growth opportunities, and a beneficial structure that minimizes risk.

Which geographic regions does Boardwalk Capital focus on?

Boardwalk Capital primarily focuses on North America but also pursues global opportunities through its international network and local market relationships.

Does Boardwalk Capital invest in smaller companies?

Yes, unlike many peers, Boardwalk Capital often starts with smaller acquisitions and scales them through a combination of organic growth and a roll-up strategy.

What industries does Boardwalk Capital target?

Boardwalk Capital invests across multiple sectors, including media, entertainment, gaming, manufacturing, distribution, consumer products, multi-unit retail, and various business and industrial services.

What types of transactions does Boardwalk Capital invest in?

We are an equity-oriented investor with flexibility in transaction structures, including majority buyouts, minority equity investments, growth capital, structured securities, corporate carve-outs, and more.

Our Core Values

We invest and operate based on established core values that have served our investors, partners, and team members well over our lengthy careers.

We call these guiding principles that drive our decisions and successes the Boardwalk Vectors of Growth^TM. Partnership and alignment; teamwork and collaboration; planning and execution; transparency and communication; respect and accountability; continuous improvement, flexibility and creativity; and having fun.

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