Welcome to Celerity Holdings
This decade will see a substantial increase in the demand for electrical services, specialized engineering and craft skills.
We partner with business owners navigating important moments of transition, and with strong management teams seeking growth under new ownership.
Our Focus
- Electrical service, specialized craft skill or consultancy businesses.
- A minimum of $1mm of EBITDA (add-ons of any size).
- Preferably businesses that have some real estate ownership.
Our Values and Path to Value Creation
- At Celerity we are focused on maintaining the identity of the companies we partner with. We believe culture, vision, and organizational alignment drive superior outcomes.
- Our principals and partners have deep operating track records growing businesses at all stages, from platform formation through to large Fortune 500 publicly listed companies.
- We have a long horizon and are committed to supporting high quality management teams by investing in the business for enduring results rather than short term gains.
- We focus primarily on 4 main levers of operational value creation:
Invest in Talent
Support management teams in a stage appropriate manner. Invest in systems and institute standardized organizational best practices. Prioritize training and foster new talent.
Sales and Marketing
Develop data-driven marketing programs and increase top of the funnel new business opportunities by optimizing marketing spend (such as, SEO, SEM). Implement appropriate sales incentives models, alongside account planning.
Technology
Introduce or optimize tech enablement, invest in data platform, and leverage data insights to support the team at all levels.
Balance Sheet
Ensure the efficiency of capital structure. Pursue strategic and tuck-in mergers and acquisitions.
Leadership
Based in the US, Tom has a long investment track record spanning industrial, energy, consumer and financial sectors. He has been involved in the founding and scaling of a number of private, public and sovereign entities, taking operating roles in the process. He is responsible for the day-to-day management of Celerity.
Tom holds a BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a MSc in Financial Economics from the University of Warwick, UK; an Overseas Development Institute Fellowship; and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Henry joined Celerity from McKinsey & Company, where he spent four years advising corporate and private equity clients on growth strategy, M&A, commercial excellence, organizational design, and AI-driven digital transformation. He was affiliated with McKinsey’s Private Equity & Principal Investors, McKinsey Transformation, and Advanced Industries practices.
Henry holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Chinese Languages from Columbia University.