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Resilience Capital Partners
Cleveland-based Resilience Capital Partners acquires and turns around industrial businesses, holding them for up to a decade.
Resilience Capital Partners
Resilience Capital Partners invests in lower middle market special situations. The firm targets platform businesses with $25 to $250 million in revenues across various industries. Resilience has made 18 investments, including Flair in Series A on April 27, 2022, and has achieved 11 portfolio exits, with Aerospace Products International being its latest exit on June 25, 2024.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
2001
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Cleveland
Corporate office
25101 Chagrin Boulevard, Suite 350, Cleveland, OH 44122, United States
Principals
Kenn Ricci
Chairman of Resilience’s portfolio company, Flight Options
Bob Potokar
Investor and board member
John Wurzburger
Chief Executive Officer of The Waddington Group (portfolio company)
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Does Resilience Capital Partners raise blind-pool funds or invest on a deal-by-deal basis?
The firm does not publicly disclose its fund structure. Its behavior — holding companies for seven to ten years across a concentrated set of industrial turnarounds — is consistent with a hybrid approach that blends committed capital with co-investment. No SEC filings or public disclosures confirm a blind-pool fund series as of mid-2026.
Who leads investment decisions at Resilience?
Resilience does not publish a formal investment committee list on its website. The firm’s model embeds senior operators like Bob Potokar in both investment and portfolio-company operating roles, indicating that decisions are made by a small group of investor-operators rather than a single named CIO. No individual is publicly identified as managing partner or CEO of the management company.
What types of companies does Resilience explicitly avoid?
Resilience operates exclusively in the industrial and adjacent business-services sectors. The firm does not invest in pure-play technology, consumer internet, healthcare services, or real estate development. Its strategy is confined to domestic middle-market manufacturers, distributors, and service companies where operational intervention can materially improve margins.
What is Pathway to Resilience, and is it part of the investment platform?
Pathway to Resilience is a workforce-training initiative launched in partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland to prepare at-risk teens and young adults for skilled employment. It is a separate community program, not an investment vehicle, and does not pool investor capital. The program uses the email domain resiliencecapital.com and is promoted on the firm’s homepage, but it is operationally and legally distinct from the private equity activities.
How long does Resilience typically hold a portfolio company?
Resilience describes its hold period as seven to ten years — meaningfully longer than the three- to five-year horizon common in standard middle-market buyout funds. This duration is a core part of the firm’s stated thesis: it takes that much time to rebuild balance sheets, retool operations, and reposition a business for a durable exit to a strategic buyer or a subsequent financial sponsor.
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