Suzanne Detore

Suzanne (DeTore) Faubel is a private-equity investment professional currently serving as a Vice President on the investment team at Hidden Harbor Capital Partners, a middle-market buyout firm headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. In that role she is responsible for financial modeling, market analysis, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring of portfolio companies. Hidden Harbor pursues an operationally intensive, "building teams focused on execution" strategy, acquiring established companies through founder/family buyouts and more complex situations such as corporate carve-outs, primarily in industrial and business-services sub-sectors.

Before Hidden Harbor, she built her career across several institutional investing platforms. She was a Senior Associate at FFL Partners (Friedman Fleischer & Lowe), the San Francisco private-equity firm founded in 1997 by Tully Friedman that focuses on healthcare and tech-enabled services and has raised roughly $7 billion in cumulative commitments across 50+ portfolio partnerships. This FFL tenure is the source of the contact details in the original stub record. She also held a Senior Associate role at Digital Alpha (a digital-infrastructure-focused investment firm) and worked earlier as an Associate at Genstar Capital, another San Francisco middle-market private-equity firm.

She began her finance career as an Investment Banking Analyst at J.P. Morgan. Her progression — J.P. Morgan → Genstar Capital → FFL Partners → Digital Alpha → Hidden Harbor — reflects a consistent focus on control-oriented private equity and buyouts rather than early-stage venture or angel investing.

Academically, she earned a BS in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Sloan), reportedly completing her undergraduate studies in the 2010–2014 period.

• Invests as part of an institutional private-equity control/buyout platform — not as an individual angel and not at seed stage.
• At Hidden Harbor, the mandate centers on established, operating middle-market businesses where the firm can drive value through operational execution ("building teams focused on execution," a "people-first" / value-creation philosophy).
• Deal types: founder/family-owned business transitions and complex corporate carve-outs.
• Sectors (current firm): industrials and business services — facilities and residential services, automotive aftermarket and fleet services, environmental/waste management, and professional services (IT, cybersecurity, engineering).
• Sectors (prior, FFL): healthcare services and tech-enabled services, using FFL's proprietary "SEED" sub-sector research approach.
• Her personal contribution is on the execution/analytical side — financial modeling, market analysis, diligence, and portfolio monitoring — consistent with a VP-level investment-team role.