Spencer Swayze

A public, independently verifiable biography for Spencer Swayze could not be found in web search results, and Spencer Swayze does not appear on Paine Schwartz Partners' current public team page as of July 1, 2026. The provided stub associates him with Paine Schwartz Partners, but the firm's current site does not verify his title, education, career history, or current role.

Paine Schwartz Partners is a private equity firm focused on sustainable food chain investing. The firm says it has more than 20 years of experience investing in food and agribusiness, approximately $6.5 billion in assets under management, 97 investments including 32 platforms, and $5.9 billion invested in food and agriculture as of December 31, 2024.

The firm traces its history to W. Dexter Paine III's 1997 co-founding of Fox Paine & Company. Kevin Schwartz was a Managing Director at the predecessor firm before co-founding Paine Schwartz Partners with Dexter Paine.

• Paine Schwartz describes itself as a global leader in sustainable food chain investing, focused on "investing to feed a growing population better food with more efficient use of resources."
• The firm invests around two core themes: productivity and sustainability across the global food system, and consumer health and wellness.
• The strategy is thesis-driven: Paine Schwartz says it generates investment ideas through a proprietary, research-intensive process focused on specific segments of the food and agribusiness value chain.
• The firm is primarily control-oriented, with flexibility to make minority investments with appropriate governance.
• The firm's stage focus is not seed. Its public strategy page states that it primarily makes buyout investments, with an allocation to growth equity investments.
• Paine Schwartz often partners with family-owned and/or operated businesses and uses industry expertise, networks, and operating support to help companies reach their next phase of growth.
• Its platform investment criteria include OECD-focused geographies, buyout targets with EBITDA of $10-$100 million+ and enterprise value of $100 million-$1 billion, and growth companies that are commercially successful but likely pre-profitability.