Adam Jump
Associate Vice President
Get their honest, personalized take on your startup.
Sign in to pitch Adam →At a glance
- Full Name
- Adam Jump
- Title
- Principal
- Firm
- Wind Point Partners
- Firm Type
- Middle-market private equity (control buyouts / "buy and build") — *not* an angel/seed investor
- Investment Stage
- Leveraged buyouts and growth-capital control investments in established, cash-flow-positive companies (plus follow-on add-on acquisitions)
- Check Size
- Wind Point targets companies with EBITDA of roughly $10M–$75M and enterprise values of roughly $100M–$500M; add-on acquisitions can be of any size
- Target Company Profile
- Profitable lower- and middle-market North American companies with strong culture, durable competitive advantages, a growth track record, resilient cash flows, and add-on M&A opportunities — often family/entrepreneur/employee-owned businesses, corporate carve-outs, or sponsor-owned companies
- Sector Focus
- Business services (engineering, professional services, logistics, maintenance), consumer products (food, household, pet), and industrial products (chemicals, engineered products, packaging)
- Geographic Focus
- North America (primary equity investments); add-ons global
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois
Background
Adam Jump is a Principal at Wind Point Partners, a Chicago-based middle-market private equity firm founded in 1984 that manages several billion dollars in assets across a series of buyout funds (its most recent flagship funds have run into the billion-dollar-plus range). He joined the firm in 2015 and has spent his tenure sourcing, executing, and managing control investments in Wind Point's core industrial, consumer, and business-services verticals.
Before joining Wind Point, Adam worked in investment banking, most recently as an Investment Banking Analyst at J.P. Morgan and, earlier, as an Analyst at Robert W. Baird in Chicago — background that grounds his current work in M&A execution and financial analysis.
He holds both an MBA and a BS in Accounting from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
*Note on title:* Wind Point's official team page currently lists Adam as Principal. Third-party aggregators (RocketReach, ZoomInfo) and the stub provided list him variously as "Vice President" / "Associate Vice President" — these appear to be dated. The "Angel Investors / Seed Round" labels in the stub are inaccurate: Wind Point is a control-oriented middle-market buyout firm, not an angel or seed investor.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests in profitable, established middle-market companies, not startups — Wind Point takes "majority equity ownership positions in high-quality lower and middle market companies."
- Sweet spot: companies with $10M–$75M of EBITDA and $100M–$500M enterprise value at initial investment.
- Three sector pillars: business services, consumer products, and industrial products — Adam personally focuses on pet care, beauty/personal care, and business services within these.
- Pursues a "buy and build" strategy, completing multiple add-on acquisitions during ownership to scale platform companies.
- Partners with proven operating executives (Wind Point's "Executive Advisor" model of 40+ senior industry executives) who help identify and run investments — a key differentiator in how deals get sourced and value gets created.
- Looks for companies with "strong culture and values," defensible competitive advantages, a history of growth, resilience across economic cycles, and robust cash flows.
Notable Investments
- Assisi Pet Care — pet care / pet treats and supplements platform (current).
- Smart Care — commercial kitchen and foodservice equipment repair and maintenance services (current).
- Voyant Beauty — contract developer/manufacturer of beauty and personal-care products (current).
- Pelsis — pest-control and hygiene products group (prior).
- RailWorks — railroad track and transit infrastructure construction and maintenance (prior).
- Novolex — packaging products manufacturer; a well-known Wind Point platform that scaled substantially before its sale to Carlyle (prior).
- Aurora Plastics — specialty plastics compounds manufacturer (prior).
- Paragon Films — manufacturer of stretch/cast film for packaging (prior).
Unlock the full research
Get how to approach them, recent activity, sources, contact links — plus pitch their AI twin for a candid read on your raise.
One-time. Stays unlocked for you.