Kimberly Beute
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- Full Name
- Kimberly A. Beute, CPA, CBA
- Title
- Chief Financial Officer
- Firm
- Auxo Investment Partners (auxopartners.com)
- Firm Type
- Lower-middle-market private equity firm (not an angel/seed investor — see note below)
- Investment Stage
- Control buyouts and recapitalizations of established, profitable operating companies (not seed-stage)
- Check Size
- Firm targets companies with EBITDA of roughly $1.5M–$15M
- Target Company Profile
- Founder- and family-owned businesses; profitable operating companies in the lower middle market
- Sector Focus
- Industrial, manufacturing, value-added distribution, and business services
- Geographic Focus
- North America, with a Michigan / Midwest emphasis (firm manages a Michigan Opportunity Fund)
- Location
- Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Background
Kimberly Beute is the Chief Financial Officer of Auxo Investment Partners, a Grand Rapids, Michigan–based private equity firm founded in 2016 that specializes in investing in and growing founder- and family-owned industrial, manufacturing, and business-services companies. In her role she is responsible for operational finance, general partner and limited partner accounting, risk management, and strategic financial planning across the firm's funds and portfolio.
She brings a deep finance and accounting background spanning real estate investment, private equity, public accounting, and risk management. Prior to Auxo, she served as Chief Financial Officer at Eenhoorn LLC, a global real estate investment and management company, and as CFO at Blackford Capital, a Grand Rapids private equity firm focused on the middle market. Earlier in her career she was an Audit Manager at Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC (specializing in financial institutions), an Insurance and Risk Management Client Executive at Marsh, and a Risk Manager at Lend Lease Real Estate Investments, where she supported an approximately $11 billion portfolio and analyzed commercial real estate acquisitions and exits.
Kimberly earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accountancy from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Bank Auditor (CBA). She is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Kimberly's role is that of a fund CFO, not a deal partner; her focus is fund finance, LP/GP accounting, risk management, and financial strategy rather than originating investments.
- Auxo's stated strategy: it is "an operationally-focused private investment firm that specializes in investing in and growing founder- and family-owned industrial, manufacturing and business-services companies."
- The firm makes majority-control investments (with willingness to consider minority positions) in profitable, established companies — not early-stage or seed startups.
- Target companies typically have EBITDA of roughly $1.5M–$15M in manufacturing, industrial, value-added distribution, and B2B services.
- Auxo emphasizes "people, alignment of interests and transparency, active operational involvement and flexible long-term capital" as core to how it evaluates and grows companies.
- Geographic tilt toward Michigan and the broader Midwest / North America, reinforced by its Michigan Opportunity Fund.
Notable Investments
- Prestige Stamping — custom washers and metal stampings (manufacturing).
- Avon Machining — precision gears and parts for heavy equipment (manufacturing).
- Bay Cast — steel castings and precision machining (manufacturing).
- Genesis Rail Services — railroad maintenance, mechanical, and construction services (transportation).
- Cariboo Central Rail Services — rail construction and maintenance in Canada (transportation).
- Golden State Assembly — wire harness and engineering manufacturing.
- Precision Products Group — spiral-wound tubular products and pharmaceutical packaging.
- Telos — press-hardening solutions with roller-hearth furnaces (manufacturing).
- Andrie *(exited)* — Great Lakes shipping specializing in liquid asphalt and petroleum (transportation).
- Bernal LLC *(exited)* — rotary converting technology solutions (manufacturing).
- M/G Transport Services *(exited)* — inland barge transportation for bulk cargo.
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