
Robert Mcgee
Founding Managing Partner, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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- Full Name
- Robert J. McGee
- Title
- Managing Partner
- Firm
- Mission Consumer Capital
- Firm Type
- Private Equity
- Investment Stage
- Buyouts and recapitalizations, growth capital, carve-outs, build-ups
- Target Company Profile
- Scalable branded and private-label consumer packaged goods companies with $15 million-$150 million in revenue and $2 million-$15 million in EBITDA; preference for differentiated, premium-positioned products, ideally natural or organic, with opportunities for line extensions, market expansion, and operational improvement.
- Sector Focus
- Consumer packaged goods; food, drug, mass, club, and convenience channels; natural and organic products.
- Geographic Focus
- Domestic U.S.; preference for companies within one hour of direct air service to Dallas-Fort Worth.
- Location
- Fort Worth, Texas
Background
Robert J. “Bobby” McGee is Managing Partner of Mission Consumer Capital, a Fort Worth private equity firm focused exclusively on lower middle-market consumer packaged goods companies. The firm invests in branded and private-label CPG businesses and prefers control positions, while remaining open to strategic co-investments.
Before Mission Consumer Capital, McGee built a long banking career at JPMorgan Chase and predecessor Texas Commerce Bank. Mission’s team page says he served as head of Corporate Banking for JPMorgan Chase in Houston, then became Chairman and CEO of Chase Bank in Fort Worth and Vice Chairman in Dallas.
During his banking career, McGee advised on and arranged financing for acquisitions and corporate takeovers across oil and gas, food distribution, retail, and transportation. Mission’s legacy team page lists transactions including Sysco Foods’ acquisition of Sara Lee’s distribution business, the acquisition of Brookstone Retail Stores from Quaker Oats, and the Texas Rangers’ Ballpark at Arlington real estate purchase.
McGee has served on public and private company boards spanning insurance, banking, SBICs, energy, branded consumer products, and retail. He is a 1977 graduate of the University of Texas Business School and has been active with civic boards including the University of Texas, McDonald Observatory, Tarrant County College, Texas Christian University’s entrepreneurship program, the O’Brien College Quarterback Award, and WPO.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Mission Consumer Capital invests in scalable consumer packaged goods companies, bringing operating expertise, industry relationships, and patient capital to founders and management teams.
- The firm’s preferred deal types are buyouts and recapitalizations, growth capital, carve-outs, and build-ups.
- Mission prefers control investments and targets companies with $15 million-$150 million in revenue and $2 million-$15 million in EBITDA.
- Sector focus is consumer products distributed through food, drug, mass, club, and convenience channels, with a stated interest in natural and organic products.
- Target operating profile includes differentiated products, premium positioning that can support attractive gross margins, branded or private-label formats, and manufacturing environments that are preferably SQF-certified.
- The firm emphasizes value creation through line extensions, market expansion, operational improvement, add-on acquisitions, management alignment, and performance-based incentives.
- Mission’s stated operating posture is: “We add more than capital. We add value.”
Notable Investments
- Nuevo Garcia Foods - Current Mission investment; San Antonio-based maker of value-added proteins including barbacoa and chorizo, plus tamales and Hispanic food staples under the Andy Garcia brand. Mission acquired the business in 2019 after a bankruptcy auction, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
- Texas Tamale Company - Acquired by Mission portfolio company Nuevo Garcia Foods on December 31, 2025; Houston-based maker of handmade tamales and Mexican specialty foods.
- Local Hive Honey - Realized investment; U.S. raw and unfiltered honey brand with 23 varietals sourced from local beekeepers. Mission invested in 2017 and sold Local Hive to Falfurrias Capital Partners in 2021.
- Jardine Foods - Realized investment; maker of premium natural and organic Southwestern foods, including salsa, sauces, dips, and related products. Mission completed a majority recapitalization in 2011 and exited to Teasdale Foods in 2015.
- Private Harvest - Realized investment; producer and distributor of gourmet sauces and oils sold to wineries, gourmet shops, and grocery stores in the U.S. and Canada.
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