A. Petter Ostberg

A. Petter Ostberg is the Chief Financial Officer at Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners (HRCO), a lower middle-market private equity firm founded in 1984 and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. Ostberg joined the firm in 2013 and has responsibility for all financial accounting, audit, and tax preparation and reporting. He also focuses on portfolio metrics and analysis and serves as a member of the firm's Investment Committee. His dual role as CFO and Investment Committee member gives him both operational and strategic influence over the firm's portfolio of industrial and commercial service businesses.

Ostberg's career spans finance, operations, and general management across several industries. He began his professional career at Prudential Securities (1985-1987) before earning his MBA at Stanford. After Stanford, he served as Group Vice President and Treasurer at New York Cruise Lines Inc. (1990-1994). He later held operational leadership roles including positions at Holberg Incorporated (1994-2009), Custom Engineered Wheels (an HRCO portfolio company), American Premier Services (as CFO), and Standard Parking. He has also served as General Manager at Planters, overseeing operational management in the grocery retail sector.

Ostberg holds an MBA in Management from Stanford University Graduate School of Business (1987-1989), a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University (1982-1985), and is a graduate of the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, where he served from 1980 to 1982. His combination of military discipline, elite business education, and decades of hands-on operational and financial experience across diverse industries makes him a well-rounded investor and advisor, particularly for founder-led and family-owned businesses navigating ownership transitions.

As an angel investor, Ostberg focuses on seed-stage opportunities. At the firm level, Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners pursues control investments in US- and Canada-based companies within the lower middle market, targeting the following profile:

HRCO's sector focus includes:

Transaction types include ownership transitions of family businesses, management buyouts, majority recapitalizations, corporate divestitures, ESOP replacements, growth capital, and joint ventures. Since founding, the firm has completed over $1.7 billion in transactions supporting over 70 family businesses and corporate divestitures.

• Revenue: $15-$200 million
• EBITDA: $3-$15 million
• Equity Commitments: $5-$50 million per deal
• Geography: United States and Canada
• B2B Services
• Specialty Niche Manufacturing
• Industrial IoT
• Process Equipment and Engineered Systems
• Specialty Chemicals and Materials
• Environmental and Infrastructure Services
• Robotics, Material Handling, and Factory Automation
• Value-Added Industrial Distribution
• Technical, Testing, and Measurement Equipment