Eos

Day-to-day private equity investment decisions sit with the firm's three-decade partnership group — Co-Founders Brian Young and Steven Friedman, and Partner Mark First. Managing Directors Brendan Moore and Adam Gruber lead origination and oversight within defined industry verticals. All three principals have operated together since the firm's founding in 1994, giving Eos one of the most stable decision-making cadres in the lower middle market.

The firm's investment team covers tech-enabled services, digital transformation, financial services and fintech, supply chain and logistics, energy transition, industrial services, healthcare services, consumer, agribusiness, and distribution. Current Managing Director-level mandates map specifically to these verticals. Eos does not publish a formal exclusion list, but its historical portfolio contains no exposure to biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, commodities extraction, or hardware-heavy deep tech.

Yes. Eos Credit Opportunities — referred to internally as ECO — is a dedicated credit sleeve built to generate stable, predictable, long-term returns in corporate credit. The firm has not disclosed the vehicle's size, duration, or whether it includes direct lending, distressed, or structured credit components. The strategy operates alongside, but structurally separate from, the private equity and public-equities efforts.