Robert Adams

Robert Adams is a Partner (also listed as Director) at InterAlpen Partners, the Omaha-based growth private equity firm that was formerly known as Panorama Point Partners. He brings roughly 17 years of investment experience to the firm. Before joining, he held investment roles at Capricorn (the investment group co-founded by InterAlpen/Panorama Point founder Stephen J. George) and at Northern Trust, where he built expertise in portfolio management and capital deployment. He is a graduate of Michigan State University.

The firm Adams helps run was founded in 2013 by Stephen J. George — previously Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Capricorn Investment Group, a roughly $5 billion private investment firm known for pioneering ESG and sustainable/impact investing — together with Clarey L. Castner, the former CEO of the University of Nebraska Foundation. Panorama Point began with a mandate to partner with successful entrepreneurs and category-winning companies at the expansion stage, and grew to more than $125 million in committed capital from family offices, foundations, and entrepreneurs worldwide across its first fund and co-investments.

Around 2023 the firm rebranded from Panorama Point Partners to InterAlpen Partners, broadening its strategy toward control and strategic-minority growth buyouts in "critical and strategically important sectors." As a Partner on a small, senior investment team (alongside founder Stephen George and partners Mark Stafford and Alex Lam), Adams participates in sourcing, diligence, and portfolio work across the firm's healthcare, technology, and special-opportunity investments. Note that his email address ([hidden]) still reflects the firm's prior name.

• Stage: Expansion / growth-stage companies, often as the first institutional PE investor — the firm states roughly 80% of its capital is deployed as the first institutional check.
• Structure: "Strategic minority and control investments in founder-led, growth-stage private companies," including control growth buyouts in the mid-market.
• Sectors: Healthcare (software, AI, telehealth, services, preventative health & wellness), technology (SaaS, robotics, AI, automation, defense technology, tech services), and special/strategic opportunities (defense & aerospace, energy, financials, deep tech).
• What makes them say yes: Category-leader potential in large, growing markets "where innovation intersects with healthcare, software and special opportunities," backed by strong founders. In the firm's own words, it invests in "aspirational companies to create category leaders in critical & strategically important sectors driven by powerful mega-trends," with a philosophy of finding "hidden gem companies and crafting them into diamonds."
• Beyond capital: The firm pairs investment with operational value-add, including executive assessment/coaching and a "Capital Partners" function to support portfolio companies.