Endurance Search Partners

About Endurance Search Partners

Our strategic focus is to take a proactive role with search fund entrepreneurs in all phases of the investment process, which includes business due-diligence, negotiations of deal structure, operating oversight, and exploration of long-term value. We add deep value by being an active entrepreneur mentor and provide ongoing support to all our portfolio companies.

Team

Rich Augustyn

Rich is a business builder who has founded, scaled and continues to manage Extensis Group and NIP Group, two market leading business services and insurance companies. Through Endurance Search Partners he has enjoyed partnering with over 100 exceptional search fund entrepreneurs, helping them find, buy and build great companies over the long term. Rich serves on the boards of ABS Warranty, FIMC, Housing Wire, KGHP and World Wide Security.

Larry Dunn

Larry is an accomplished financial professional with over 30 years of diverse operational and investing experience. He has generated substantial value in high growth environments by delivering solutions in a wide array of areas, including organizational strategy, capital management, process improvement, cost containment and financial reporting. In addition to his role at Endurance, Larry is the CFO of NIP Group and partners with Rich in its day to day operations. Prior to joining NIP Group, he was Managing Director at Ally Financial and a Director of M&A and Divisional CFO at AIG. He began his career with KPMG. Larry, similar to Rich, enjoys working closely with searchers at every stage of their quest to acquire one great company and supporting their goals to build that company while becoming a highly successful CEO. He is committed to lend his expertise to, and generously collaborates with, all members of the search fund community. Larry serves on the boards of Arwood Waste, Botanical Designs, Housing Wire, ABS Warranty and World Wide Security.

Tiffany Clay Augustyn

Tiffany has spent her career as a middle market and growth equity private equity investor working alongside driven leaders and management teams to build great companies.  Prior to joining Endurance, Tiffany was an investor with the global private equity firms TPG Capital and L Catterton where she helped lead a number of buyout and growth equity investments as well as served on the Board of several operating companies.  She started her career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. where she served public and private sector clients throughout North America and the Middle East.  Tiffany received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School where she graduated with high distinction as a George F. Baker Scholar.  She received a B.A. from Yale University where she graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Like the rest of the Endurance team, Tiffany has a passion for the excitement and challenges of acquiring, operating and growing businesses, particularly in working with early career, talented, excellence-oriented operators and their investors. She is a member of the Board of the World Resources Institute as well as a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations.