Los Angeles – July 23, 2024 – Angeles Equity Partners, LLC (“Angeles”), a private investment firm specializing in niche manufacturing, critical industrial services, and specialty distribution businesses, today announced Peter Kurto as an operating partner at Angeles Operations Group. Kurto brings over 20 years of extensive P&L leadership experience within portfolio companies, driving transformation and performance improvement.
Angeles focuses on revitalizing underperforming industrial businesses with a consistent approach to operational transformation and strategic repositioning. As an operating partner in the affiliated Angeles Operations Group, Kurto will work alongside the Angeles team to support the evaluation and due diligence of new investment opportunities, develop and execute value creation plans, and provide strategic oversight across the Angeles portfolio companies in his new role.
“Peter is an exceptionally talented professional with a proven track record across diverse industries,” said Tim Meyer and Jordan Katz, Co-Founders and Managing Partners of Angeles Equity Partners. “His extensive experience in navigating fast-paced, complex industrial environments will bolster the capabilities of the Angeles Operations Group, enhancing our ability to create value across a broad range of situations, business models, and industrial end markets.”
Before joining Angeles Operations Group, Kurto served as an Operating Executive at Monomoy Capital Partners (“MCP”). Prior to MCP, Peter held key leadership roles, including CEO of Columbus Industries, COO at H.M. Dunn AeroSystems, and CEO at American Air Filter. Kurto commenced his career at General Electric in various business leadership roles in the Global Chemicals Intermediates and GE Plastics Businesses where he earned his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Brown University and an M.B.A. from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.
“Angeles has assembled an extremely talented group of investment and operating professionals. I look forward to partnering with the Angeles team and portfolio leadership in an effort to drive exceptional equity value creation for our investors,” Kurto added.
About Angeles Equity Partners, LLC
Angeles Equity Partners, LLC is a specialist private investment firm headquartered in Los Angeles. The firm’s investment philosophy is to partner with niche manufacturing, critical industrial services, and specialty distribution businesses to help unlock their full potential through operational transformation and strategic repositioning. Learn more online at www.angelesequity.com.