Jessica Pascucci
Consumer Sourcing Analyst
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- Full Name
- Jessica M. Pascucci
- Title
- Manager, Sourcing & Marketing (previously Consumer Sourcing Senior Analyst; joined as Consumer Sourcing Analyst)
- Firm
- Yellow Wood Partners, LLC
- Firm Type
- Private equity — consumer-focused, control/buyout (not an angel investor)
- Investment Stage
- Control buyouts and corporate carve-outs of established mid-market consumer brands (not seed-stage)
- Check Size
- ~$10M–$80M of equity per deal, in companies with ~$30M–$200M enterprise value (Fund III closed at $750M in March 2022)
- Target Company Profile
- Established mid-market consumer branded-products companies and divestable brands from large multinationals; controlling stakes, often as platform + add-on acquisitions
- Sector Focus
- Consumer brands — beauty, personal care, health/wellness, footcare, food, and household products sold across mass, drug, food, specialty, value, club, and e-commerce channels
- Geographic Focus
- Primarily U.S., with global brand portfolios
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts (One International Place, Suite 3420)
Background
Jessica Pascucci is a sourcing and marketing professional at Yellow Wood Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm that invests exclusively in consumer branded-products companies. She joined the firm in 2018 as a Consumer Sourcing Analyst and was promoted to Consumer Sourcing Senior Analyst effective January 2022. She now holds the title of Manager, Sourcing & Marketing, per her firm and professional listings.
She holds a BS in Business Marketing from Lasell College (Lasell University) in Newton, Massachusetts. Her work centers on deal sourcing and firm marketing rather than on writing checks — she helps identify and research potential brand acquisition targets and supports the firm's outreach and pipeline development.
Yellow Wood describes its approach as a "Consumer Operating DNA" strategy, which pairs deep pre-investment industry research and proprietary data analysis with hands-on operating and investment expertise through exit. Pascucci's sourcing role sits at the front end of that model, feeding the firm's data-driven identification of brands and platforms to pursue.
It is worth noting that the original stub data labeled her as an "Angel Investor" backing "Seed Round" deals; research does not support this. She is a sourcing/marketing team member at a mid-market consumer buyout firm, and any investment activity flows through Yellow Wood's control-oriented private equity strategy rather than personal angel investing.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Yellow Wood invests exclusively in consumer branded products — beauty, personal care, health and wellness, footcare, food, and household goods — across mass, drug, food, specialty, value, club, and e-commerce channels.
- The firm targets controlling stakes in mid-market companies, typically deploying ~$10M–$80M of equity into businesses with ~$30M–$200M enterprise value.
- A signature strategy is the corporate carve-out: Yellow Wood has completed multiple divestiture acquisitions from large multinational CPG companies (Bayer, Reckitt Benckiser, Haleon, Unilever), then built them into standalone platforms with add-on acquisitions.
- The firm's stated "Consumer Operating DNA" combines extensive pre-investment research and data analysis with operating resources to drive organic growth and efficiency — meaning sourcing (Pascucci's function) and diligence are heavily research-led.
- Pascucci's own role is sourcing and marketing: identifying brands that fit the firm's thesis and supporting outreach, rather than setting personal investment criteria.
Notable Investments
- Evermark, LLC — Platform created in January 2026 by merging Yellow Wood portfolio companies Suave Brands Company and Elida Beauty; a global personal-care platform with ~$1.9B annual retail sales.
- Suave Brands Company — Carve-out of the Suave brand from Unilever; later acquired the ChapStick brand from Haleon (June 2024).
- Elida Beauty — Portfolio of beauty/personal-care brands (e.g., Q-tips, Caress, St. Ives, Pond's, Noxzema, TIGI) acquired from Unilever (June 2024); Yellow Wood's fifth corporate carve-out in four years.
- Dr. Scholl's / Scholl International — Global footcare brands.
- Beacon Wellness Brands — Anchored by the PlusOne® brand.
- Real Techniques and EcoTools — Beauty tools/accessories brands.
- Byoma — Skincare brand.
- Isle of Paradise, Tanologist, TanLuxe — Self-tanning brands.
- Since 2011, current and prior Yellow Wood portfolio companies have held nearly 60 individual consumer brands.
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