Ryan Pitt

Ryan Pitt is a consumer-focused private equity investor who is currently a Principal at High Bluff Capital Partners, a San Diego–based firm founded in 2020 by Anand Gowda that pursues control-oriented investments in restaurant, food, beverage, entertainment, and retail companies. In that role he is responsible for diligence on new investment opportunities and for helping oversee the firm's portfolio companies (which include Quiznos, Taco del Mar, and Church's Texas Chicken under the REGO Restaurant Group platform).

Before High Bluff, Pitt held investment roles at Mistral Equity Partners and at Goode Partners — the New York consumer private equity firm (founded 2005) whose email domain and phone number appear in the stub contact data. Goode Partners invests in consumer brands and services, retail, restaurants, and direct marketing/selling, typically committing on the order of $10M–$30M per deal. The presence of a `goodepartners.com` email suggests this profile's contact details date from his time on Goode's investment team; his current, verifiable affiliation is High Bluff Capital Partners.

He began his career at Citi on its Consumer Products Investment Banking team. While at Mistral Equity Partners, he also worked alongside the firm's affiliated SPACs — Haymaker Acquisition Corp. III, Tastemaker Acquisition Corp., and AF Acquisition Corp.

Pitt graduated from Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University (W. P. Carey School of Business) with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.

• Invests almost exclusively in consumer-facing companies — his stated experience spans restaurants/QSR, food & beverage, branded consumer products, apparel, and retail.
• At High Bluff, the strategy is control-oriented: buyouts, corporate carve-outs, and growth-capital deals in companies with roughly $5M–$60M of EBITDA, often operational turnarounds and multi-brand restaurant platforms.
• His prior firms shared the same consumer lens: Goode Partners targets high-growth consumer brands (~$10M–$30M checks); Mistral Equity Partners focuses on consumer/food and beverage, including via SPAC vehicles.
• Practical implication: he is a later-stage/control and growth investor, not an angel or seed check-writer — founders should approach him for buyout, carve-out, recapitalization, or growth-equity situations in consumer categories.