William Deitrick
Managing Director
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- Full Name
- William Edgar Deitrick Jr.
- Title
- Managing Director
- Firm
- Riverside Management Group (RMG)
- Firm Type
- Merchant bank / private investment & advisory firm that also makes venture and principal investments (categorized as angel/seed in the source list)
- Investment Stage
- Early-stage / seed for venture deals; the firm has historically participated across venture and growth rounds (Series B/C) and runs principal investing alongside advisory work
- Sector Focus
- Information technology, communications, business services, fintech, healthcare/healthtech, biotechnology, hospitality, industrials/manufacturing, alternative energy and sustainability
- Geographic Focus
- Primarily United States, with the firm maintaining offices in New York, Madrid, and San Francisco
- Location
- Palm Beach, Florida
Background
William ("Will") Deitrick is a Managing Director at Riverside Management Group (RMG), a merchant-banking boutique founded in 1996 that provides capital-raising and M&A advisory services and makes principal/venture investments. He joined RMG in 2018 and brings roughly 20 years of experience across investment banking, research, and hedge fund management. His work sits at the intersection of capital markets advisory and direct investing for middle-market and growth companies.
Before RMG, Deitrick was Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at Venovate Marketplace Inc., where he focused on investment banking and capital raising for middle-market companies. Earlier, he co-founded the multi-strategy hedge fund Greenock Capital, serving as Partner and Portfolio Manager and running the firm's credit business, which comprised more than half of the firm's assets under management. His earlier career on the sell side included serving as Global Head of Loan Strategy at Citigroup — where his team was ranked number one in Institutional Investor Magazine's 2006 poll of loan market professionals — along with roles at J.P. Morgan and Bank of America.
Deitrick is a recognized voice in structured and leveraged credit. He was named one of the "20 Rising Stars of Fixed Income" by Institutional Investor Magazine in 2007, co-authored *The Handbook of Loan Syndications and Trading* (2006), and co-authored *The Structured Credit Handbook* (2007). He holds FINRA Series 7, 79, and 63 licenses.
He earned both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from The Johns Hopkins University, and previously attended Phillips Exeter Academy.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Operates within RMG, a merchant bank of ~50 senior professionals and advisors that combines capital raising in the private markets with M&A advisory and principal/venture investing.
- Sector breadth reflects RMG's mandate: information technology, communications, business services, fintech, biotechnology, healthcare, hospitality, industrials/manufacturing, and alternative energy/sustainability.
- Deitrick's personal expertise is concentrated in structured credit, loan syndication and trading, multi-strategy hedge fund management, and middle-market investment banking — making him a fit for companies where financing structure, capital strategy, and credit are central.
- The firm participates across venture and growth stages (historically Series B/C and growth equity), and supports founders on both raising private capital and on exit/M&A pathways.
Notable Investments
- Tripwire — cybersecurity/IT software company; RMG portfolio holding that was acquired (one of the firm's 9 reported exits).
- Insurity — insurance software (insurtech) provider; RMG portfolio company, later acquired.
- Summit Hotel Properties — hospitality/lodging REIT; among RMG's notable portfolio outcomes (IPO/exit).
- Silicon Genesis (SiGen) — semiconductor/cleantech engineering company; RMG participated in later financing rounds (Series C/E, ~$23M, 2007).
- First Service Networks — facilities-management services company; RMG participated in venture financing (~$4M, 2003).
- Biopure and AdhereHealth — biotech and healthtech companies cited as among RMG's more recent investments.
- ReNew Power — Indian renewable-energy company taken public via an ~$8 billion merger with RMG Acquisition Corp II (RMG's SPAC franchise).
- Atlético de Madrid / Apollo — RMG served as advisor on Apollo's majority investment, an ~$2.6 billion valuation transaction (advisory, not a portfolio holding).
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