Yorkshire Equity

Managing Partner Stephen Largan, Partner Salim Haji, and Partner Andy Woglom lead investment decisions. All three worked together at MacDermid, a $1 billion specialty-chemicals company, before reuniting at a Denver family office and later forming Yorkshire. Operating Partner Ali Comeaux, who co-founded the firm's in-house distributor purchasing business DSI, also holds a senior role, but the firm has not publicly described a formal investment committee structure.

Yorkshire's embedded operating arm, Distributors Solutions, manages purchasing programs for more than 4,000 independent distributors and was co-founded by Partner Salim Haji and Operating Partner Ali Comeaux. That network gives the firm a direct view into distribution-channel dynamics and owner-operator relationships across North American industrial supply chains. The partners' own operating experiences at MacDermid and a Denver family office also provide an origination network distinct from auction processes run by investment banks.

No. Yorkshire Equity does not publicly market a conventional blind-pool fund to outside limited partners. The firm structures investments on a deal-by-deal basis, often co-investing with strategic or financial partners, and operates with an indefinite-hold posture. This permanent-capital, operator-heavy model makes it structurally closer to an industrial holding company than to a standard private equity fund manager.

Yorkshire targets control investments, growth recapitalizations, and select co-investments in lower middle-market industrial companies. The firm does not participate in early-stage venture or minority growth rounds. Its website lists co-investment, growth, and recapitalization as its strategy set.

The firm concentrates on North American lower middle-market manufacturing, industrial technology, and distribution. Portfolio evidence includes diesel emissions control systems, engineered plastic assemblies, performance truck parts, global supply-chain management, and audio-visual hardware. Yorkshire does not list technology, healthcare, or consumer sectors among its investment activities.

Distributors Solutions, also called DSI, is a portfolio company and operating arm of Yorkshire Equity, co-founded by Partner Salim Haji and Operating Partner Ali Comeaux. DSI sources and manages purchasing programs for a network of more than 4,000 independent distribution companies. It serves as both a direct investment and a deal-sourcing and operational-resourcing vehicle for the broader firm.