Yellow Point Equity Partners

Yellow Point Equity Partners

Yellow Point Equity Partners was co-founded by Brian Begert, a former Raymond James managing director, and Dave Chapman, who previously repositioned Greenlight Power Technologies from a niche player to a global energy-technology leader before engineering its sale in 2003. The firm operates from Vancouver and concentrates on mid-market businesses across western Canada and the Pacific Northwest US. Its mandate spans buyouts, management buyouts, growth equity, recapitalizations, and succession-driven transitions. The firm deploys capital through a hands-off, board-level partnership model that prioritizes three-to-fifteen-year hold periods — well outside the standard mid-market private-equity window. Yellow Point structures transactions to align with incumbent management, often participating in strategic decisions, major financial moves, and eventual disposition processes. The portfolio reflects a mix of industrial, consumer, and services businesses. Confirmed board representations include Cast Steel Products, Edo Japan, Phillips Brewing, Securiguard, Rextag, Logistec, Remcan, CIMS, and Bravo Target Safety. Geographic focus remains tightly concentrated on Canada and the Pacific Northwest United States. The firm operates with an eight-person team, including a Non-Executive Chairman, Rusty Goepel, whose advisory committee draws on CEOs from some of Canada’s largest companies. Adjacent community engagement surfaces through portfolio companies — the website names charitable initiatives rather than a dedicated foundation — and individual involvement with organizations such as BC Social Venture Partners and the North Shore Community Foundation. In early 2025, Yellow Point hired Jasmin Benias as Director of Finance, adding dedicated tax and financial-reporting capacity from Vancouver’s multi-family-office sector. Yellow Point’s long-hold structure is its genuine differentiator. Where most mid-market private equity firms operate on a five-to-seven-year cycle, Yellow Point’s explicit comfort with a fifteen-year horizon eliminates the rushed-exit dynamic and lets its portfolio companies pursue value creation on business-cycle time. That architecture, combined with a partner group that invests significant personal wealth alongside institutional and high-net-worth backers, ties GP and LP incentives directly to the operating performance of the businesses it acquires.