D'Orazio Holdings

D'Orazio Holdings

D'Orazio Holdings formed in 2010 after the D'Orazio family monetized Collision Revision, a 25-shop auto-body repair chain, through a sale to Boyd Group. Founder R.J. D'Orazio, whose late father Roger D'Orazio Jr. built the original business, structured the new entity as a permanent-capital vehicle in Burr Ridge, Illinois rather than a traditional fund. Managing Partner John Broucek IV works alongside D'Orazio to run the direct-investment operation. The firm takes control positions in lower-middle-market industrial and energy businesses. Its mandate spans buyouts, corporate divestitures, recapitalizations, and succession-driven acquisitions, with the balance sheet structured for indefinite holds rather than fixed-duration funds. Investment coverage focuses on industrial technology, energy transition, mobility, supply chain and logistics, and workflow automation. The firm also maintains explicit interest in turnaround and distressed situations where operational intervention can reset performance. The family office runs out of a single headquarters in suburban Chicago. R.J. D'Orazio has served in regional economic-development roles, including a term on the Will County Workforce Investment Board. The office holds a diversified set of unrelated assets alongside its control investments, including a commercial development site in Braidwood, Illinois, a prize steer from the Illinois State Fair, and cryptocurrency exposure. The structure blends family-office permanence with private-equity discipline. By avoiding external LP timelines, D'Orazio Holdings can hold businesses through full operational transformations — a posture that distinguishes it from both conventional buyout funds and multi-family-office platforms where investment committees impose standardized exit horizons.