Lucas Scholhamer
Vice President
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- Full Name
- Lucas Eric Scholhamer
- Title
- Vice President → promoted to Principal (January 2024); now Director, Corporate Development at Hubbell Incorporated
- Firm
- Compass Diversified (Compass Group Management LLC; NYSE: CODI)
- Firm Type
- Publicly traded middle-market private-equity / permanent-capital holding company (not an angel/seed investor)
- Investment Stage
- Established middle-market companies (controlling buyouts) — *not* seed-stage. The "Angel Investors / Seed Round" labels in the source stub appear to be aggregator errors and are contradicted by his actual record.
- Sector Focus
- Consumer / branded products and niche industrial businesses (Compass Diversified's core verticals)
- Geographic Focus
- United States (North America)
- Location
- Westport, Connecticut (Compass Diversified, East Coast office); currently Shelton, CT (Hubbell)
Background
Lucas Scholhamer is a private-equity and M&A professional who spent most of his career at Compass Diversified (CODI), a publicly traded, Westport, Connecticut–based holding company that acquires and operates established middle-market businesses. He joined CODI in 2016 as an Associate and rose through the investment team to Vice President and, in January 2024, to Principal at the firm's East Coast office, where he originated, evaluated, and executed transactions.
Before Compass Diversified, Scholhamer worked in the Investment Banking Division of Deloitte Corporate Finance, where he was a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions group in Charlotte. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (B.S.).
At CODI he served as a director of Sterno and worked closely with portfolio companies PrimaLoft and Velocity Outdoor, and was a key deal-team member on several divestitures, including Clean Earth, Liberty Safe, and Marucci Sports.
More recent records (LinkedIn / data aggregators updated into 2026) indicate Scholhamer has since moved to Hubbell Incorporated (Shelton, CT) as Director, Corporate Development. The Compass email and 203 phone number in the source stub therefore reflect his Compass Diversified tenure; he no longer appears on Compass Diversified's current team page.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Operated within Compass Diversified's permanent-capital model: acquiring controlling stakes in established, cash-generative middle-market companies and holding them long-term rather than on a fixed fund timeline.
- Focus areas align with CODI's portfolio: branded consumer products and niche/industrial businesses with defensible market positions.
- His personal role was deal-side: originating and executing acquisitions and divestitures, plus board-level oversight of portfolio companies (e.g., Sterno).
- Note: despite the stub's "angel / seed" tag, nothing in the record supports early-stage/startup angel investing — his activity is mature-company control private equity.
Notable Investments
- Sterno — leading maker of portable food-warming and home-fragrance/flameless products; Scholhamer served on its board.
- PrimaLoft — advanced synthetic-insulation materials brand; he worked closely with the company.
- Velocity Outdoor — outdoor/airgun and sporting-goods brand portfolio (Crosman, etc.); he worked closely with the company.
- Marucci Sports — premium baseball/softball equipment brand; he was a key deal-team member on its sale (CODI sold Marucci in 2023).
- Liberty Safe — leading safe and security-storage manufacturer; key deal-team member on its divestiture.
- Clean Earth — environmental/hazardous-waste services business; key deal-team member on its divestiture.
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