Hudson Glade

Hudson Glade

Founded by Managing Partner John Torelli, Hudson Glade operates from Rye Brook, New York as a lower-middle-market private equity firm focused exclusively on North American control buyouts. The firm targets initial platform investments with revenues below $150 million or EBITDA under $20 million, pursuing businesses that possess defensible growth characteristics and would benefit from institutional operational rigor. Torelli and Partner Matthew Rieger bring operator mentalities to portfolio governance, structuring each engagement around measurable value-creation plans. The firm's investment strategy spans consumer products, industrial manufacturing, business services, and circular-economy platforms. Hudson Glade employs a buy-and-build approach, using each initial platform as a foundation for add-on acquisitions that expand geographic reach or product-line density. Its proprietary M.O.A.T.S.™ framework guides due diligence and post-close execution — an internally developed methodology for assessing competitive durability and accelerating EBITDA growth. The firm sources opportunities through regional intermediaries, independent sponsors, and direct founder relationships across the Midwest, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic US. Hudson Glade maintains a deliberately lean team structure consistent with its concentrated portfolio approach. Investment decision-making rests with the partnership group, which combines private equity execution experience with operating backgrounds in industrial and consumer businesses. What distinguishes Hudson Glade structurally is its integration of formalized risk-assessment architecture — the M.O.A.T.S.™ system — into a firm size that typically relies on pattern recognition alone. This codification of the investment and value-creation process represents an unusual commitment for a lower-middle-market firm, creating a repeatable playbook for succession-driven transactions where sellers care as much about operational stewardship as purchase price.