Kanbrick

Tracy Britt Cool and Brian Humphrey are the co-founders and managing partners. Britt Cool spent ten years at Berkshire Hathaway as the chairman of several portfolio companies and served as an executive on Warren Buffett's team. The two partners share investment committee authority, evaluating each acquisition together.

Kanbrick does not raise blind-pool funds with a 10-year deadline to return capital. Instead, it operates on a permanent-capital basis, acquiring companies with the intention of holding them indefinitely. This removes the pressure to engineer a near-term exit and allows operating decisions that prioritize decades-long value creation over quarterly reporting.

Kanbrick makes only direct controlling investments. It does not allocate to outside funds, invest in startups, or participate in syndicated minority rounds. Every transaction results in majority ownership of an operating company.

Tracy Britt Cool joined Berkshire Hathaway in 2009 as a financial assistant to Warren Buffett and later became chairman of several Berkshire subsidiaries, including Benjamin Moore, Johns Manville, Larson-Juhl, and Oriental Trading Company. She left Berkshire in 2020 to co-found Kanbrick, applying the permanent-ownership philosophy she observed there to smaller industrial companies.