Zac Carson

Zac Carson is a Partner on the investment team at American Industrial Partners, a New York–based private equity firm focused exclusively on the industrial economy. He joined AIP in 2015 and is responsible for transaction sourcing, underwriting, and execution — the full deal lifecycle from origination through closing.

Before AIP, Carson worked at Credit Suisse, where he served in the Financial Sponsors and Financial Institutions groups, advising clients on mergers, acquisitions, and capital-raising. That investment-banking background — advising sponsors and financial institutions on M&A — maps directly to AIP's carve-out-heavy deal style, where sourcing complex divestitures from large corporates is central to the strategy.

He earned a B.B.A. in Finance and International Business, graduating *summa cum laude*, from the University of Georgia.

American Industrial Partners itself is a "transformational" industrial investor with roughly $17.8 billion in AUM and a portfolio generating ~$32 billion in aggregate revenue across 74,000+ employees (as of March 31, 2026). The firm has completed 145+ platform and add-on acquisitions since inception, combining sector expertise with operational and engineering rigor.

• Invests in industrial businesses across North America — manufacturing, industrial services, capital equipment, chemicals, materials, aerospace/defense, and adjacent sectors.
• Pursues control buyouts, with a signature emphasis on corporate carve-outs and divestitures — acquiring non-core divisions from large public and private parent companies (e.g., PPG, International Paper, AGCO, Veolia, Aker BioMarine).
• Operates as a "transformational investor," pairing deep sector knowledge with operational and engineering discipline to drive value creation post-acquisition, rather than passive minority positions.
• Executes at large scale — platform acquisitions of established businesses, plus add-ons to build out portfolio platforms. This is late-stage, control private equity, not early-stage venture or seed investing.