George Beck

George P. Beck is a Vice President at Cotton Creek Capital, an Austin, Texas–based lower middle market private equity firm. He joined the firm's investment team as an Associate in November 2017 and has since been promoted to Vice President. In his role he works on sourcing, evaluating, and managing control investments in established lower middle market operating companies.

Before joining Cotton Creek, Beck was a Mergers & Acquisitions / Investment Banking Analyst at Harris Williams & Co. in Richmond, Virginia — one of the leading middle market M&A advisory firms. There he focused on transactions in the aerospace & defense, industrials, and building products sectors, gaining deal experience that maps closely to Cotton Creek's industrial and manufacturing focus.

Beck earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics (and Finance) from the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond.

Cotton Creek Capital itself invests in and grows established lower middle market companies across manufacturing, distribution, industrial services, specialty chemicals, and food & beverage. The firm pursues buyouts, recapitalizations, buy-and-builds, and corporate divestitures in businesses with enterprise values of roughly $15M–$200M, and its investment team has more than fifteen years of experience advising and operating privately held companies.

• Stage / type: Control-oriented private equity — buyouts, recapitalizations, buy-and-builds, corporate divestitures, and first-round institutional capital. This is later-stage than the "seed/angel" label in the stub.
• Size: Enterprise values of ~$15M–$200M; targets companies with EBITDA between ~$5M and ~$15M and a history of stable financial performance.
• What makes them say yes (per firm criteria): A "strong market position in niche markets" (or markets lacking an established leader); companies facing "growth-related constraints that cannot always be addressed with existing resources"; ability to expand earnings through revenue growth and operational improvement; and a proven or improvable management team.
• Sectors: Manufacturing, value-added distribution, industrial services, specialty chemicals, food & beverage, infrastructure, transportation/logistics, business services, and building products.
• Geography: Nationwide, with a specific emphasis on the Southwest, where the firm leverages regional relationships and market presence.