Justin Reyna

Justin Reyna is a Managing Director in H.I.G. Capital's Advantage Fund, based in the firm's San Francisco office. H.I.G. states that he focuses on investing in the consumer sector and is involved across the investment process, including deal sourcing, transaction negotiation and execution, and portfolio company oversight.

Reyna has more than 20 years of middle-market private equity experience. His investing work has covered consumer products and services, retail, healthcare, and business services. H.I.G. lists his current board roles as Empire Today, Lipari Foods, Patriot Pickle, and Windows USA.

Before H.I.G., Reyna worked at Fox Paine and Golden Gate Capital. Earlier in his career, he was with DB Capital Partners, the predecessor firm to MidOcean Partners, and began as an analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

He earned a B.A. in economics, cum laude, from Princeton University.

• H.I.G. describes Reyna's current mandate as the Advantage Fund, based in San Francisco, with a focus on the consumer sector.
• He appears best matched to established middle-market businesses rather than seed-stage startups; H.I.G. Private Equity says it invests in "middle market enterprises, typically with enterprise values between $50 million to $1 billion."
• H.I.G.'s private equity categories include management-led buyouts or recapitalizations of established profitable manufacturing and service businesses, plus growth/development capital for promising high-growth companies.
• H.I.G. emphasizes hands-on value creation, operating expertise, strategic support, and management teams/entrepreneurs that retain substantial equity ownership.
• His portfolio indicates a bias toward consumer and business-services models with defensible distribution, services execution, or operational scale: installed home services, specialty food distribution, fresh food manufacturing, and direct-to-consumer replacement windows.