Rob Richardson brings 40+ years of experience as a business leader and entrepreneur across technology, logistics, and services. He is a strategic, hands-on operating executive who thrives in entrepreneurial environments where growth, innovation, and operational excellence are essential, partnering closely with founders, leadership teams, investors, and boards to guide organizations through periods of growth, transformation, and transition. His experience spans early-stage ventures to nationally scaled enterprises, providing a broad perspective on building resilient organizations, developing strong leadership teams, and creating long-term value.
Highlights:
- Founder-led technology and services business – Built and scaled a founder-led organization into a nationally recognized platform, delivering significant revenue growth, expanding the employee base, and executing a successful strategic sale to an industry acquirer.
- Private equity–backed logistics company – Served as CEO during a period of rapid industry change, leading expansion, operational discipline, and strategic repositioning while aligning performance with investor expectations.
- Mission-driven organization – Guided the growth of a purpose-driven organization requiring strong operational rigor and leadership development, overseeing expansion initiatives, fundraising efforts, and organizational build-out while preserving mission and culture.
Craig Levy brings 35+ years of experience as an operator, CFO, strategist, CXO mentor, interim executive, and trusted advisor to private equity-backed and founder-led businesses. His work consistently centers on growing businesses through strong partnerships with investors, employees, clients, and lenders. Where necessary, establishing defined repeatable processes to ensure that all stakeholders receive timely, accurate and actionable business insights. Deep cross-functional experience across Manufacturing, Logistics / Supply Chain, Sales, Go to Market, Product Development, Marketing, Technology, and Human Resources.
Representative situations and outcomes include:
- SaaS and FinTech businesses transitioning from founder-led growth, built sales enablement, profitability analytics, and operating discipline to support rapid revenue growth and strategic ownership transitions.
- Logistics company in financial distress, restored reporting credibility, improved cash forecasting, restructured operations, and executed a strategic sale rather than liquidation.
- Multi-site manufacturer with repeated CFO turnover, led a financial and operational turnaround, improved margins, and supported a successful exit with meaningful enterprise value expansion.
- Professionalized finance in SaaS and manufacturing companies.
Colby Collier brings 35+ years of experience investing in, operating, and advising small and middle market companies. Colby was a co-founder of the CIT Group's Private Equity unit in the early nineties — during his tenure had AUM of roughly $750M across a variety of asset classes. Subsequently co-founded Laud Collier Capital, a merchant banking and independent sponsor firm known for partnering closely with other investors and management teams across the full investment lifecycle.
Representative situations and outcomes include:
- Formation and leadership of a middle market private equity platform investing in under-consolidated industries, execution of buyouts, recapitalizations, and secondary transactions across manufacturing, plastics, business services, and transportation.
- Board-level leadership in portfolio companies facing operational complexity or ownership transition, provided strategic oversight, capital structure guidance, governance, and mentoring CXOs to stabilize and grow businesses.
- Management and stewardship of investments, facilitate communications and interaction between management teams and investors, driver of acquisition initiatives, re-positioned leadership teams, and created alternative paths to value realization where original investment theses had stalled.
Broader than three people.
3BG draws on a deep operational network built across decades of consulting, interim executive work, and principal investing. When a situation calls for specialized expertise, we engage trusted professionals directly, as part of the team, not as referrals.
Our network spans HR leadership, IT and systems, go-to-market strategy, pricing, supply chain, insurance, CPAs, legal advisors, lenders, and sector-specific operating executives, all engaged with relevant experience and accountable to outcomes.
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