FalconPoint Partners

Andrew Singer, Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer, runs investment decisions. He previously co-led Wynnchurch Capital's New York office and spent a decade at Pamplona Capital Management, investing across industrials, business services, and healthcare. The firm's founder and managing partner, Russ Gehrett, passed away in December 2025.

The firm's investment team is largely composed of former Pamplona Capital, Oaktree Power Opportunities, and Barclays industrials bankers, which yields a sourcing network concentrated on founder-owned industrial-service businesses and corporate carve-outs. FalconPoint also emphasizes direct relationships with intermediaries, executives, and financial institutions, and explicitly targets complicated, non-auction processes where flexible capital and rapid execution create an edge.

FalconPoint is a traditional private equity firm, not a family office. It is structured as an asset manager raising third-party capital and deploying it into North American middle-market companies. The principals, Andrew Singer and the late Russ Gehrett, trace their lineage to institutional private equity platforms at Pamplona and Wynnchurch.

FalconPoint's stated model is direct and co-investment driven. The firm highlights writing tailored capital solutions — buyouts, recapitalizations, growth equity, and spin-offs — into individual platform companies. There is no mention of a fund-of-funds strategy or committing to external GPs as limited partners.

The firm targets expansion, late-stage, buyout, and complex-situation investments across the North American middle market. Strategy tags include growth, recapitalization, restructuring, spin-offs, and general venture, though the current portfolio skews toward established industrial and infrastructure-services platforms.

BrightAI is both a portfolio company and an internal operating resource. The AI IoT platform was launched to digitize physical-world operations and is led by Operating Partner Alex Hawkinson, a serial entrepreneur who previously founded and sold SmartThings to Samsung. FalconPoint uses BrightAI to modernize back-end operations across its other portfolio holdings.

The firm's sole office is at 600 Lexington Avenue in New York City. Its stated investment geography is North America, though its portfolio company SMS operates in the United States, Europe, and South America, suggesting follow-on international exposure through existing platforms.