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The professionals at Carriage Hill have extensive transactional and advisory experience…

spanning a wide range of business types and industries. The performance of our senior executives and middle management is the advantage that is sustained year after year.

  • Mr. Compo has thirty years of diverse business experience. He has acted as both a principal and advisor on multiple transactions involving debt and equity financings, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings across various industries, including healthcare, packaging, building products, logistics, and software.

    Prior to the formation of Carriage Hill he was a founding partner of Iridium Partners, a merger and acquisition advisory firm and merchant bank focused on private, middle market companies. Prior to that, he was affiliated with two intermediary firms, Haley Capital and Acquisition Associates, where he assisted entrepreneurs and former top executives in their acquisitions of private companies. Mr. Compo has been an operating partner and director of a number of companies, including Experience Design, Industrial Products Enterprises and Alfa Medical. He has been an exclusive advisor and lead negotiator on complex business transactions, including the recapitalizations of General Home Pharmacy, Bradley Morris and A&R Logistics.

    Earlier in his career, Mr. Compo was employed by Loeb, Rhodes, Hornblower & Company (subsequently acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express), in various operational capacities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has earned an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is a contributor to the innovation@work blog. Mr. Compo is a published composer and is the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC advisory council on small business.

    compo@carriagehill.com

    212-769-6884 (Office)

    914-450-7009 (Cell)

Managing Partner

  • Mr. Compo has thirty years of diverse business experience. He has acted as both a principal and advisor on multiple transactions involving debt and equity financings, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings across various industries, including healthcare, packaging, building products, logistics, and software.

    Prior to the formation of Carriage Hill he was a founding partner of Iridium Partners, a merger and acquisition advisory firm and merchant bank focused on private, middle market companies. Prior to that, he was affiliated with two intermediary firms, Haley Capital and Acquisition Associates, where he assisted entrepreneurs and former top executives in their acquisitions of private companies. Mr. Compo has been an operating partner and director of a number of companies, including Experience Design, Industrial Products Enterprises and Alfa Medical. He has been an exclusive advisor and lead negotiator on complex business transactions, including the recapitalizations of General Home Pharmacy, Bradley Morris and A&R Logistics.

    Earlier in his career, Mr. Compo was employed by Loeb, Rhodes, Hornblower & Company (subsequently acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express), in various operational capacities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has earned an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is a contributor to the innovation@work blog. Mr. Compo is a published composer and is the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC advisory council on small business.

    compo@carriagehill.com

    212-769-6884 (Office)

    914-450-7009 (Cell)

Vice President, Business Development

  • Mr. Compo has thirty years of diverse business experience. He has acted as both a principal and advisor on multiple transactions involving debt and equity financings, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings across various industries, including healthcare, packaging, building products, logistics, and software.

    Prior to the formation of Carriage Hill he was a founding partner of Iridium Partners, a merger and acquisition advisory firm and merchant bank focused on private, middle market companies. Prior to that, he was affiliated with two intermediary firms, Haley Capital and Acquisition Associates, where he assisted entrepreneurs and former top executives in their acquisitions of private companies. Mr. Compo has been an operating partner and director of a number of companies, including Experience Design, Industrial Products Enterprises and Alfa Medical. He has been an exclusive advisor and lead negotiator on complex business transactions, including the recapitalizations of General Home Pharmacy, Bradley Morris and A&R Logistics.

    Earlier in his career, Mr. Compo was employed by Loeb, Rhodes, Hornblower & Company (subsequently acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express), in various operational capacities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has earned an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is a contributor to the innovation@work blog. Mr. Compo is a published composer and is the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC advisory council on small business.

    compo@carriagehill.com

    212-769-6884 (Office)

    914-450-7009 (Cell)

Vice President, Business Development

  • Mr. Compo has thirty years of diverse business experience. He has acted as both a principal and advisor on multiple transactions involving debt and equity financings, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings across various industries, including healthcare, packaging, building products, logistics, and software.

    Prior to the formation of Carriage Hill he was a founding partner of Iridium Partners, a merger and acquisition advisory firm and merchant bank focused on private, middle market companies. Prior to that, he was affiliated with two intermediary firms, Haley Capital and Acquisition Associates, where he assisted entrepreneurs and former top executives in their acquisitions of private companies. Mr. Compo has been an operating partner and director of a number of companies, including Experience Design, Industrial Products Enterprises and Alfa Medical. He has been an exclusive advisor and lead negotiator on complex business transactions, including the recapitalizations of General Home Pharmacy, Bradley Morris and A&R Logistics.

    Earlier in his career, Mr. Compo was employed by Loeb, Rhodes, Hornblower & Company (subsequently acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express), in various operational capacities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has earned an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is a contributor to the innovation@work blog. Mr. Compo is a published composer and is the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC advisory council on small business.

    compo@carriagehill.com

    212-769-6884 (Office)

    914-450-7009 (Cell)

Associate Business Development

  • Mr. Compo has thirty years of diverse business experience. He has acted as both a principal and advisor on multiple transactions involving debt and equity financings, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings across various industries, including healthcare, packaging, building products, logistics, and software.

    Prior to the formation of Carriage Hill he was a founding partner of Iridium Partners, a merger and acquisition advisory firm and merchant bank focused on private, middle market companies. Prior to that, he was affiliated with two intermediary firms, Haley Capital and Acquisition Associates, where he assisted entrepreneurs and former top executives in their acquisitions of private companies. Mr. Compo has been an operating partner and director of a number of companies, including Experience Design, Industrial Products Enterprises and Alfa Medical. He has been an exclusive advisor and lead negotiator on complex business transactions, including the recapitalizations of General Home Pharmacy, Bradley Morris and A&R Logistics.

    Earlier in his career, Mr. Compo was employed by Loeb, Rhodes, Hornblower & Company (subsequently acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express), in various operational capacities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has earned an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is a contributor to the innovation@work blog. Mr. Compo is a published composer and is the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC advisory council on small business.

    compo@carriagehill.com

    212-769-6884 (Office)

    914-450-7009 (Cell)

Senior Associate

  • Mr. Compo has thirty years of diverse business experience. He has acted as both a principal and advisor on multiple transactions involving debt and equity financings, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings across various industries, including healthcare, packaging, building products, logistics, and software.

    Prior to the formation of Carriage Hill he was a founding partner of Iridium Partners, a merger and acquisition advisory firm and merchant bank focused on private, middle market companies. Prior to that, he was affiliated with two intermediary firms, Haley Capital and Acquisition Associates, where he assisted entrepreneurs and former top executives in their acquisitions of private companies. Mr. Compo has been an operating partner and director of a number of companies, including Experience Design, Industrial Products Enterprises and Alfa Medical. He has been an exclusive advisor and lead negotiator on complex business transactions, including the recapitalizations of General Home Pharmacy, Bradley Morris and A&R Logistics.

    Earlier in his career, Mr. Compo was employed by Loeb, Rhodes, Hornblower & Company (subsequently acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express), in various operational capacities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has earned an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is a contributor to the innovation@work blog. Mr. Compo is a published composer and is the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC advisory council on small business.

    compo@carriagehill.com

    212-769-6884 (Office)

    914-450-7009 (Cell)

Associate

  • Mr. Compo has thirty years of diverse business experience. He has acted as both a principal and advisor on multiple transactions involving debt and equity financings, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings across various industries, including healthcare, packaging, building products, logistics, and software.

    Prior to the formation of Carriage Hill he was a founding partner of Iridium Partners, a merger and acquisition advisory firm and merchant bank focused on private, middle market companies. Prior to that, he was affiliated with two intermediary firms, Haley Capital and Acquisition Associates, where he assisted entrepreneurs and former top executives in their acquisitions of private companies. Mr. Compo has been an operating partner and director of a number of companies, including Experience Design, Industrial Products Enterprises and Alfa Medical. He has been an exclusive advisor and lead negotiator on complex business transactions, including the recapitalizations of General Home Pharmacy, Bradley Morris and A&R Logistics.

    Earlier in his career, Mr. Compo was employed by Loeb, Rhodes, Hornblower & Company (subsequently acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express), in various operational capacities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has earned an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is a contributor to the innovation@work blog. Mr. Compo is a published composer and is the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC advisory council on small business.

    compo@carriagehill.com

    212-769-6884 (Office)

    914-450-7009 (Cell)

Associate

  • Steve has been a partner with Carriage Hill since 2008 where he is responsible for all aspects of the company’s buy-side/ sell-side M&A advisory practice. In addition to managing a team of originators, analysts and associates, Steve closely and actively engages with owners and managers of privately-held companies, spanning a variety of industries, including manufacturing, business services, healthcare, distribution, TMT, consumer products, food and energy. Steve specializes in sourcing, structuring, negotiating and closing M&A and capital transactions that fit the specific needs of his clients, maintaining an active role from inception of a transaction process through closing. He places a strong emphasis on discretion and confidentiality, whether he and his team are running a narrow (non-auction) sell-side mandate or pursuing acquisitions in connection with a targeted private equity add-on or platform buy-side mandate.

    Prior to Carriage Hill, Steve was the Managing Director and Group Head of Asset-Based Lending with CapitalSource, a middle-market commercial finance company that grew from start-up to $20B in assets during Steve’s six years with the company. Before CapitalSource, Steve was Senior Vice President with GE Capital Healthcare and its predecessor company, Heller Financial. Before that, Steve practiced M&A law as an associate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Prior to Skadden, Steve attended law school at night while working full time in sales and marketing with Baxter Healthcare Corporation and Caremark.

    Steve received a J.D., summa cum laude, from American University Washington College of Law, an M.B.A from Pennsylvania State University, and a B.A in Economics from Dickinson College.

    sklein@carriagehill.com

    301-263-0492 (Office)

    301-312-7749 (Cell)

Managing Partner

  • Mr. Compo has thirty years of diverse business experience. He has acted as both a principal and advisor on multiple transactions involving debt and equity financings, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings across various industries, including healthcare, packaging, building products, logistics, and software.

    Prior to the formation of Carriage Hill he was a founding partner of Iridium Partners, a merger and acquisition advisory firm and merchant bank focused on private, middle market companies. Prior to that, he was affiliated with two intermediary firms, Haley Capital and Acquisition Associates, where he assisted entrepreneurs and former top executives in their acquisitions of private companies. Mr. Compo has been an operating partner and director of a number of companies, including Experience Design, Industrial Products Enterprises and Alfa Medical. He has been an exclusive advisor and lead negotiator on complex business transactions, including the recapitalizations of General Home Pharmacy, Bradley Morris and A&R Logistics.

    Earlier in his career, Mr. Compo was employed by Loeb, Rhodes, Hornblower & Company (subsequently acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express), in various operational capacities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has earned an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is a contributor to the innovation@work blog. Mr. Compo is a published composer and is the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC advisory council on small business.

    compo@carriagehill.com

    212-769-6884 (Office)

    914-450-7009 (Cell)

Vice President, Business Development

  • Mr. Compo has thirty years of diverse business experience. He has acted as both a principal and advisor on multiple transactions involving debt and equity financings, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings across various industries, including healthcare, packaging, building products, logistics, and software.

    Prior to the formation of Carriage Hill he was a founding partner of Iridium Partners, a merger and acquisition advisory firm and merchant bank focused on private, middle market companies. Prior to that, he was affiliated with two intermediary firms, Haley Capital and Acquisition Associates, where he assisted entrepreneurs and former top executives in their acquisitions of private companies. Mr. Compo has been an operating partner and director of a number of companies, including Experience Design, Industrial Products Enterprises and Alfa Medical. He has been an exclusive advisor and lead negotiator on complex business transactions, including the recapitalizations of General Home Pharmacy, Bradley Morris and A&R Logistics.

    Earlier in his career, Mr. Compo was employed by Loeb, Rhodes, Hornblower & Company (subsequently acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express), in various operational capacities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has earned an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is a contributor to the innovation@work blog. Mr. Compo is a published composer and is the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC advisory council on small business.

    compo@carriagehill.com

    212-769-6884 (Office)

    914-450-7009 (Cell)

Vice President, Research

  • Mr. Compo has thirty years of diverse business experience. He has acted as both a principal and advisor on multiple transactions involving debt and equity financings, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings across various industries, including healthcare, packaging, building products, logistics, and software.

    Prior to the formation of Carriage Hill he was a founding partner of Iridium Partners, a merger and acquisition advisory firm and merchant bank focused on private, middle market companies. Prior to that, he was affiliated with two intermediary firms, Haley Capital and Acquisition Associates, where he assisted entrepreneurs and former top executives in their acquisitions of private companies. Mr. Compo has been an operating partner and director of a number of companies, including Experience Design, Industrial Products Enterprises and Alfa Medical. He has been an exclusive advisor and lead negotiator on complex business transactions, including the recapitalizations of General Home Pharmacy, Bradley Morris and A&R Logistics.

    Earlier in his career, Mr. Compo was employed by Loeb, Rhodes, Hornblower & Company (subsequently acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express), in various operational capacities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has earned an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is a contributor to the innovation@work blog. Mr. Compo is a published composer and is the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC advisory council on small business.

    compo@carriagehill.com

    212-769-6884 (Office)

    914-450-7009 (Cell)

Senior Associate

  • Mr. Compo has thirty years of diverse business experience. He has acted as both a principal and advisor on multiple transactions involving debt and equity financings, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings across various industries, including healthcare, packaging, building products, logistics, and software.

    Prior to the formation of Carriage Hill he was a founding partner of Iridium Partners, a merger and acquisition advisory firm and merchant bank focused on private, middle market companies. Prior to that, he was affiliated with two intermediary firms, Haley Capital and Acquisition Associates, where he assisted entrepreneurs and former top executives in their acquisitions of private companies. Mr. Compo has been an operating partner and director of a number of companies, including Experience Design, Industrial Products Enterprises and Alfa Medical. He has been an exclusive advisor and lead negotiator on complex business transactions, including the recapitalizations of General Home Pharmacy, Bradley Morris and A&R Logistics.

    Earlier in his career, Mr. Compo was employed by Loeb, Rhodes, Hornblower & Company (subsequently acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express), in various operational capacities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has earned an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is a contributor to the innovation@work blog. Mr. Compo is a published composer and is the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC advisory council on small business.

    compo@carriagehill.com

    212-769-6884 (Office)

    914-450-7009 (Cell)

Associate

  • Mr. Compo has thirty years of diverse business experience. He has acted as both a principal and advisor on multiple transactions involving debt and equity financings, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings across various industries, including healthcare, packaging, building products, logistics, and software.

    Prior to the formation of Carriage Hill he was a founding partner of Iridium Partners, a merger and acquisition advisory firm and merchant bank focused on private, middle market companies. Prior to that, he was affiliated with two intermediary firms, Haley Capital and Acquisition Associates, where he assisted entrepreneurs and former top executives in their acquisitions of private companies. Mr. Compo has been an operating partner and director of a number of companies, including Experience Design, Industrial Products Enterprises and Alfa Medical. He has been an exclusive advisor and lead negotiator on complex business transactions, including the recapitalizations of General Home Pharmacy, Bradley Morris and A&R Logistics.

    Earlier in his career, Mr. Compo was employed by Loeb, Rhodes, Hornblower & Company (subsequently acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express), in various operational capacities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He has completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has earned an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is a contributor to the innovation@work blog. Mr. Compo is a published composer and is the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC advisory council on small business.

    compo@carriagehill.com

    212-769-6884 (Office)

    914-450-7009 (Cell)

Associate