Damon Conway

Damon Conway is a Canadian-raised private equity investor with roughly two decades of experience investing in and operating private companies. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce with First Class Honours from Queen's University and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School (2010–2012). He began his career in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at CIBC World Markets in Toronto, then worked at Onex Corporation, where he was actively involved in the acquisition and subsequent ownership of Husky Injection Molding Systems, and later at Mill Road Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut (a firm founded by former Blackstone professionals), where he focused on private and public equity investments.

Conway joined Altas Partners — the Toronto-based, large-cap private equity firm founded in 2012 by Onex veteran Andrew Sheiner — as a Principal on June 27, 2016, and was later promoted to Partner. Over nearly a decade at Altas he served on the firm's Investment Committee and, per his own bio, was "an integral part of the senior leadership team that grew the investment team five-fold and assets under management ten-fold to $10 billion." He served on the Board of Directors of Pye-Barker Fire & Safety, one of Altas's flagship portfolio companies.

In September 2025 Conway announced the launch of Hillspoint Capital Partners, a New York–based private equity firm where he is Founder & Managing Partner, alongside Managing Partner Noel Jeon. Hillspoint invests in leading services companies across North America, partnering with founders and management teams to accelerate growth through business building and M&A. The founding team markets a combined track record of 40+ years of investing, roughly $4 billion of capital deployed across 16 platform companies, and more than 550 add-on acquisitions.

• Firm strategy (Hillspoint): Invests in "profitable, growing companies with defensible market positions, loyal customer bases, and strong management teams" — services businesses headquartered in North America.
• Ownership target: "Founder-owned or management-owned businesses, often where Hillspoint is the first capital partner."
• Deal structure: "Majority or select minority transactions" — flexible on control.
• Value creation: Partnering with ownership teams to "accelerate growth, strengthen competitive positioning, and build lasting value," primarily via organic business building plus a disciplined buy-and-build add-on M&A program.
• Style (from Altas lineage): Concentrated, high-conviction investing in service sub-sectors — the Altas model of one or two significant, long-hold acquisitions per year rather than a high-volume portfolio.
• Not applicable: Despite the stub label, he is not an angel or seed-stage investor; there is no evidence of individual angel checks.