Cameron Bannon

Cameron Bannon is the Founder and President of Ridgetown Capital, a Vancouver-based private equity firm he launched in 2023. He describes himself as coming from an entrepreneurial family and has spent roughly the last decade building value at companies as an investor, board member, and partner to management teams. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Honours, First Class) from the Queen's School of Business (Smith School of Business) at Queen's University.

Bannon began his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York, working in the firm's Investment Banking Division / Natural Resources Group, where he advised clients on strategic acquisitions, divestitures, and capital raises. He then joined Onex Corporation, the large Toronto-headquartered private equity and credit manager (founded 1984), around 2015, rising to Principal. Public directories at various points listed his title as Senior Associate and later Principal with an industrials focus.

During roughly eight years at Onex, Bannon helped lead the firm's investing efforts in the North American packaging industry and worked on sourcing, diligence, and execution across the industrials sector. Reporting on his Onex tenure also ties him to the Onex Partners divestiture of KraussMaffei Group, a German industrial machinery maker. This packaging and industrials specialization became the foundation for Ridgetown Capital.

In 2023 Bannon left Onex to found Ridgetown Capital as an independent sponsor acquiring lower-middle-market businesses in packaging, industrial distribution, and supply chain across the U.S. and Canada. The firm operates through specialized strategies including Ridgetown Packaging and R.A. Pacific Northwest Partners.

• Acquires stable, profitable, established companies — not startups — with an opportunity to "meaningfully accelerate growth"
• Sector concentration in packaging, plus adjacent industrial distribution, supply chain/logistics, advanced manufacturing, and B2B industrials
• Explicit focus on "Exceptional Family & Founder Led Businesses" (the firm's own tagline), partnering where there is "a foundation of committed employees, strong customer relationships, and a sterling reputation"
• Operates as an independent sponsor, and states it can be "creative and flexible in how it partners and structures transactions" — implying deal-by-deal capital rather than a fixed fund mandate
• Geography: United States and Canada (with a Pacific Northwest–oriented strategy under R.A. Pacific Northwest Partners)