About
Empowering operators
to become owners
About
Empowering operators
to become owners
Explorer is a private equity sponsor empowering management teams to buy the companies for which they work and solve the succession problems of owner-operators. Explorer's team has experience spanning more than 30 years in the deal community and our partners can be assured that we have the ability, experience and integrity to bring each transaction to close. The real work, however, begins after the closing, when we bring our operating partners aboard in a situationally appropriate capacity to supplement the experience of existing management. Using this approach, we have turned companies around, grown companies during the most challenging economic times and helped successful teams achieve greater results.
Team
Seasoned Transaction Guides
Team
Seasoned Transaction Guides
Randy Roberts
For more than a decade Randy served as a business-minded transactional attorney advising private equity groups, family offices and operating companies with regard to strategic initiatives, including company formation and governance, capital markets, debt and equity financing, human resource management, product commercialization, real estate and commercial transactions and mergers and acquisitions.
From his experience in the trenches, Randy has become highly skilled at assessing value and risk, and identifying value-creating opportunities. Randy consistently excels at underwriting, structuring and executing complicated transactions.
A Colorado native, Randy graduated summa cum laude from Regis University in 2002 and from Harvard Law School in 2005. Active in the community, Randy has been repeatedly named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine, was selected as one of Denver’s 40 under 40 by the Denver Business Journal in 2015, and is a member of the Leadership Denver Class of 2016.
TIM CRAFT
Tim Craft has over fifteen years of entrepreneurial finance and acquisition experience. As a principal, he has led buy-side transactions exceeding $150M in aggregate value in the natural resources, technology, real estate and construction industries.
Tim is also highly skilled in the areas of real estate development, venture capital, and capital markets.
Tim is originally from Fort Worth, Texas and has been a resident of Denver, Colorado since 1997. Tim is a graduate of the University of Denver.
Explorer Advisory Board:
Josh Peters | Managing Director, NBH Capital Finance
Jason Ficken | Partner, Quadriga Partners
Keith Galante | President, Paragon Audit & Consulting
Explorer Operating Partners:
LARRY HAY | Executive
Named one of the top 100 Business Executives in Colorado and with over 35 years of leadership experience, Mr. Hay has the vision to identify a company’s maximum potential, the market awareness to recognize and capitalize on developing consumer trends, the expertise to develop a strategic plan, and the operational experience to see it through to fruition.
An accomplished executive with a broad range of experience in a variety of industries, he has helped a number of companies identify their core business opportunities and strategically position themselves to take advantage of developing consumer trends. An expert at expansion and growth, he has spearheaded the platform foundation, recruitment and development of executive teams, building of sales and execution organizations, and the development of systems and procedures for rapid growth for numerous companies throughout a variety of industries.
Most recently, he spent 10 years as the Operating Partner and Director for a $1 billion Private Equity firm where he identified the opportunity potential in target companies, developed the strategic plans and oversaw the operational implementation of growth initiatives, ensuring that companies maximize their potential; often taking an interim CEO role and developing management teams and providing Board leadership as Chairman. He has extensive experience in due diligence, capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, streamlining operations, solving complex challenges and multi-unit replication across multiple industries.
Prior to Private Equity, his career included C-Level positions in the medical services, multi-unit retail and restaurant, business services, technology, healthcare and manufacturing and distribution industries.
Portfolio
Limitless Exploration
Portfolio
Limitless Exploration
In the industries of Manufacturing, Distribution and Business Services and in the Rocky Mountain and Mid-West Regions, Explorer’s model is to support management teams to assess, structure and execute control transactions of companies with annual earnings between $1M-$5M. Collectively, our team has executed hundreds of transactions in various capacities ranging in size from a few hundred thousand to several hundred million dollars. We have the attention, relationships and experience to bring transactions to closing, and to support post-closing growth.