Lisa Schmidt

Lisa Schmidt is the Chief Financial Officer of Kinderhook Industries. Kinderhook's firm biography says she has been CFO since the firm's inception. Kinderhook was founded in 2003 and describes itself as a private investment firm that has raised over $11 billion of committed capital and completed 500+ investments and follow-on acquisitions.

Before Kinderhook, Schmidt was Corporate Controller at Geocapital, where she handled financial reporting, investor communications, internal budgeting, and cash management. She began her career at Deloitte & Touche as a Senior Accountant.

Schmidt graduated from the University of Florida with a Master of Accountancy. Her public profile is finance and fund-operations oriented rather than deal-lead oriented; Kinderhook press releases generally list managing directors and vice presidents as transaction contacts.

• Kinderhook's strategy is not seed-stage angel investing; the firm targets control-oriented investments in lower-middle-market and middle-market businesses.
• The firm focuses on companies with "defensible niche market positioning" in healthcare services, environmental & equipment services / environmental & industrial services, and industrials & manufacturing.
• Kinderhook says its model starts with management: "exceptional management is the foundation of every successful company."
• The firm looks for platforms with enough scale to become market leaders, then uses organic growth and strategic M&A to build category leaders.
• Kinderhook explicitly favors a buy-and-build approach: it seeks to "buy small and buy often" inside its core sectors.
• Inc.'s Founder Friendly profile lists Kinderhook's target portfolio-company size as $50 million to $1 billion enterprise value.
• No public source found a personal check size or personal angel-investing thesis for Schmidt.