Founded in 1991, Sterling Investment Partners is a middle market private equity firm with a long history of building companies across its targeted industry sectors. Sterling has completed over 205 transactions in partnership with strong management teams who share our vision of collaborative value creation. The firm seeks to invest primarily in companies with favorable competitive positions and strong prospects for growth through a careful investment selection process that has been honed by a cohesive team of senior investment professionals. Our approach to creating equity value is to support our management teams in accelerating growth, completing add-on acquisitions and building strong operational capabilities. Sterling is a long-term oriented investor. The achievement of our growth and development objectives with management has occurred over an average ownership period in excess of five years. Significant incremental co-investment capital has been invested in Sterling portfolio companies by our limited partners which include leading global institutional investors. Sterling investment professionals make a substantial investment in each of our private equity funds. Key industries Sterling focuses on are value-added distribution and business services.