Brandon Gregorio

Brandon Gregorio is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Canum Capital Partners, where he is involved in the firm’s investment and portfolio activities. Canum describes itself as a private investment firm focused on lower-middle-market companies, particularly in complex situations where strategic advisory, operational improvement, and financial restructuring skills can be used to create value.

Before co-founding Canum Capital, Gregorio was Managing Principal of Cencal Capital, LLC, a private investment platform focused on acquiring and managing stressed single-family and multi-family real estate assets. Earlier in his career, he worked in restructuring investment banking, most recently as a Director at Miller Buckfire & Co. in New York, and previously as an investment banker at Saybrook Capital and Wedbush, Inc.

Gregorio has been a principal investor and capital markets professional since 2000. His transaction experience includes M&A, debt and equity financings, and deleveraging transactions across industries including airlines, auto parts, consumer products, entertainment, media, oil and gas services, and retail.

He earned an M.A. in Business Economics, summa cum laude, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a B.S. in Business Economics, magna cum laude, from CSU Bakersfield. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the Association for Corporate Growth.

• Canum focuses on lower-middle-market companies in complex or transitional situations, including businesses facing operational challenges, liquidity constraints, overleverage, litigation issues, bankruptcies, or wind-down/liquidation scenarios.
• The firm’s stated approach is to invest where it can be “instrumental in creating incremental value” through strategic advisory, operational improvement, and financial restructuring.
• Canum also considers companies in transition where value can be created through organic growth, operational improvements, strategic-plan execution, business-owner liquidity, management buyouts, corporate divestitures, growth capital, or acquisition financing.
• Typical revenue target is $10 million to $100 million, with no stated EBITDA minimum.
• Sector focus is flexible, with stated preference for consumer-focused products and services, food and beverage, specialty retail, niche manufacturing, value-added distribution and logistics, and business services.
• Canum will consider U.S.-based opportunities generally, but prefers Western U.S.-headquartered companies.
• The firm says its partners take active roles in investments and provide “sizable portions” of the capital required for each investment.