Alexander Mayes

Alexander Mayes is an investment professional associated with Compass Diversified, a NYSE-listed holding company that owns and manages middle-market businesses through a permanent-capital model. Public reporting in May 2024 stated that Compass Diversified promoted Alex Mayes to Vice President. Compass Diversified’s current site identifies Compass Group Management LLC as the management organization behind the investment team and lists its Westport, Connecticut and Costa Mesa, California offices; the phone number in the stub matches the Costa Mesa office.

Before Compass, Mayes worked in investment banking. NYU Shanghai profiled him in 2019 as a 2017 alumnus who majored in Business and Finance and was then an investment banking analyst in mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, where he described building financial models, creating investor presentations, and researching industry trends.

At NYU Shanghai, Mayes co-founded the Undergraduate Business Association and helped bring business speakers to campus, including Blackstone CEO Steven Schwarzman. A 2016 article by Mayes in an NYU Shanghai student publication described him as an incoming full-time investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley IBD and a Goldman Sachs Equity Capital Markets summer analyst.

Mayes later earned an MBA from The Wharton School; Wharton MBA Admissions listed “WG’24 Alex Mayes” as the host of in-person alumni events at Compass Diversified Holdings’ Costa Mesa office in October 2024.

• Compass Diversified’s investment strategy is not seed or angel investing; it focuses on acquiring controlling interests in established middle-market companies.
• The firm states that it invests in “high-growth middle-market companies” with a “sustainable competitive advantage” that are “poised to gain share in attractive markets.”
• CODI prefers transactions of $80 million to $800 million and targets companies with stable positive EBITDA of at least $10 million per year.
• Sector focus is consumer, industrial technology, and healthcare.
• CODI emphasizes majority positions, permanent capital, and long-term support for management teams rather than fund-life-driven exits.
• The firm says it can provide both debt and equity capital, positioning itself as a buyer with transaction certainty and speed.