Argand Partners Announces New Senior Investment Team Hire

NEW YORK, March 22, 2023 – Argand Partners, LP (“Argand”), the New York- and San Francisco Bay Area-based private equity firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Eric Korsten as Managing Director.  Gerald Lizzo has also joined Argand as an Associate.

Eric brings over 25 years of experience identifying, investing in, advising, and growing middle-market companies and has deep relationships across the private equity industry.  Howard Morgan, Managing Partner & Co-Founder at Argand, commented, “Eric has a great track record of sourcing and executing attractive investments and working with companies to accelerate their growth. We are delighted to welcome him to the growing Argand team. I got to know Eric originally when we were working at affiliated firms, and we’re very pleased to be working with him again.”

Eric Korsten, Managing Director, commented, “I have known and respected Argand’s co-founders, Heather Faust and Howard Morgan, for over a decade, and I am thrilled to have joined such an incredible team.  We share a common investment philosophy and I strongly believe in the value of Argand’s global growth strategy in the middle-market.”

Prior to joining Argand, Eric had previously been a Senior Managing Director and Investment Committee member at Branford Castle Partners, LP where he worked for over a decade until 2022 helping launch and grow two private equity funds. Eric led numerous investments across a variety of industries, including notable investments in Surface Preparation Technologies and Pulse Veterinary Technologies, among others. Earlier in his career, Eric was an investment banker at Jefferies & Co. Eric graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. and holds an M.B.A. from New York University – Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Gerald joins Argand from Piper Sandler in New York where he was an Investment Banking Associate focused on M&A advisory within the chemicals industry. Previously, Gerald was at Mizuho in New York focused on corporate finance and capital market transactions within the industrials space. Gerald graduated summa cum laude from Macaulay Honors College at Baruch, CUNY with a B.B.A. in Finance and a minor in Interdisciplinary Studies in NYC.

About Argand Partners

Argand is a New York and San Francisco Bay Area-based middle-market private equity firm that targets market-leading industrial companies with under-resourced and unrealized global growth potential. The firm makes investments in advanced manufacturing and business services companies with a strong U.S. nexus (headquarters, significant operations, primary growth market, or a majority of revenue) and often significant global operations, or expansion opportunities.

Argand companies have strong market share, sustainable competitive advantages, defensive characteristics, and significant growth potential supported by secular demand trends.

Argand is a growth-oriented control investor that engages with complex situations to unlock value. The team employs a hands-on approach to partnering with management to create value across the investment lifecycle and help portfolio companies achieve their full potential as world-class, industry-leading companies.

In 2021, 2022 and 2023, Argand was named a Top-50 PE Firm in The Middle-Market™. The award is designed to acknowledge small and mid-sized leading private equity firms in the middle-market. Argand is a signatory to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment and the ILPA Diversity in Action initiative.

In addition, Heather Faust, Argand’s Managing Partner and Co-Founder, was named one of Mergers & Acquisitions Most Influential Women in Mid-Market M&A in 2022 and 2023.

Further information on Argand can be found on the website: www.argandequity.com

For more information about Argand contact:

Kay Blackwell
Managing Director, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
Argand Partners
(212) 588-6477
kblackwell@argandequity.com