Charterhouse Strategic Partners

Charterhouse Strategic Partners is a private investment firm that evaluates direct opportunities across both public and private markets. The firm distinguishes itself by investing its own capital alongside management and existing shareholders, focusing on North American-based companies with experienced management teams, innovative strategies, and growing market positions. Their investment focus is primarily on critical digital infrastructure, including Crypto Rails Infrastructure, which facilitates the movement of digital assets across various networks and traditional financial systems. They also target Telecommunications, encompassing physical and digital infrastructure for connectivity, from tower assets to next-generation network platforms, and AI Infrastructure, which includes the compute, data, and tooling layers essential for deploying artificial intelligence at scale.

Charterhouse Strategic Partners was formed in 2016, evolving from the legacy of Charterhouse, a pioneer in leveraged buyouts in the United States, originally founded as a New York merchant bank in 1973. Upon successfully exiting the institutional private equity funds known as Charterhouse Equity Partners, the two senior executives of the firm restructured their strategy to establish Charterhouse Strategic Partners. This new entity was created to decouple the capital provider from the strategic advice and experience, allowing the principals to invest their own capital and foster long-term value creation opportunities independent of typical fund realization demands.

The firm's current investment portfolio includes Diamond Communications, recognized as one of the largest wireless infrastructure companies in the United States, and Charter Digital, which has been actively investing in crypto and digital asset technology since 2013. Other notable investments include Suburban Propane, a leading nationwide distributor of propane, fuel oil, and related products, and TierPoint, a prominent data center and cloud service provider. Past investments also include companies like Faction and BlockGen.

The team at Charterhouse Strategic Partners comprises experienced institutional investors who bring decades of investment management and boardroom experience, having served as Chairmen, former CEOs, and Directors of various public and private companies. Key team members include Tom Dircks, a Managing Director who previously managed and invested Charterhouse's multi-billion dollar institutional private equity funds. William Landuyt, also a Managing Director, joined after a distinguished career with Hanson PLC, where he served as Chairman and CEO of Millennium Chemicals Inc. and CFO of Hanson PLC. Steve Dircks, a Principal, is responsible for sourcing, diligence, and financial analysis of investment opportunities and is also a Managing Director of Charter Digital. Parker Whitfield serves as an Analyst.