Reverence Capital Partners

Investment decisions are led by the three co-founders: Milton Berlinski (Managing Partner), Peter Aberg (Partner), and Alex Chulack (Partner). All three previously worked together at Goldman Sachs and have overseen financial-services deals across asset management, banks, specialty finance, capital markets, insurance, and fintech. The broader investment team includes Managing Directors and sector-focused Senior Vice Presidents who serve on portfolio company boards.

Deal flow relies heavily on the founders’ multi-decade relationships across the financial-services industry, reinforced by a dedicated origination function. In September 2022 the firm hired Michael Lee as Head of Investment Strategy & Origination to build a systematic outbound prospecting effort anchored in thematic research — an unusual resourcing choice for a middle-market manager. The firm's in-house capital markets group, added in 2026, further extends its lender and intermediary network.

Reverence openly defines itself as a financial-services specialist and does not indicate any appetite for generalist investments outside the sector. Within financials, the firm's stated subsectors are asset management, banks and specialty finance, capital markets, insurance, and fintech; consumer, healthcare, industrial, and technology verticals appear absent from disclosed portfolio activity.

Milton Berlinski spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was a founding member of the Financial Institutions Group and later led the firm’s global financial-sponsor coverage. Peter Aberg worked 28 years at Goldman, mainly in the Securities Division, co-heading the Principal Finance Group. Alex Chulack spent eight years at General Atlantic leading financial-services investing, preceded by investment-banking roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. All three hold MBAs from Wharton (Berlinski and Aberg) or a BA from Amherst (Chulack).