Our Team

Gerald is recognized as a thought leader and outstanding innovator in the rapidly growing field of private equity. He is the founder of Blackmore Partners, an independent private equity firm and intermediary. Blackmore Partners provides investing capital and business expertise to enterprises with potential. Blackmore Partners forms strategic partnerships with existing management teams, leveraging expertise and relationships to stabilize, strengthen and grow lasting value. Moreover, investment efforts and managerial expertise focus on the operation of a global and diversified portfolio of business enterprises. This includes opportunities in industries such as media, distribution, healthcare, defense, and financial services. Secondly, Gerald O’Dwyer is also a non-executive co-founder of the PECO Fund, an investment group of proprietary M&A intermediary partners, high net worth individuals, family offices and institutional investors. This fund acts as a co-investor alongside Private Equity Sponsors. Together, each target company belongs to the Private Equity Sponsor and the Target Investment, LLC. Furthermore, PECO’s investors have a unique opportunity to participate in deals not otherwise available to the public at large. Finally, partnering with institutional capital, he has built a diversified and extensive network to identify executives interested in: (1) buying a company or division, (2) acquiring a company they have identified in their industry, or (3) seeking to purchase a company in a specific industry. He recognizes that an expert management team is integral in driving a successful LBO, MBO, or merger and acquisition.  

Rick Grady has significant executive experience in the technology and banking industries, having served over three decades in senior leadership positions with Electronic Data Systems(EDS), Affiliated Computer Services(ACS) and Computer Task Group(CTG), primarily in their banking and investment divisions, and in numerous corporate roles involving acquisitions, competitor intelligence, analyst relations, revenue enhancement, strategic planning and R&D. Beyond technology, his experience encompasses economics and finance, and lobbying for community-based financial institutions and their customers at state and federal levels. Rick is also an elected official, serving as a Councilman in the City of Plano, and a combat veteran having served in the U. S. Army.

 

Steven Brown is the Senior Partner of SB Digital Professional Advisors – a specialty consultancy that focuses on accelerating commercial value for digital solutions within Fintech, Payments and Printing industries.   Prior to founding SB Digital Professional Advisors, Steve was the SVP, US Sales and Marketing for Brinks, Incorporated. In that capacity, Steve repositioned the company’s payments strategy, developed new channel partnerships within the banking industry and achieved record revenue growth.   Previously, Steve held senior leadership positions with Fiserv (SVP, Sales), Mimeo.com (SVP, Sales and Business Development), and dual roles at CDS (President and CGX EVP, International Operations). In each role, Steve championed digital transformation initiatives, implemented lean processes and instilled a strong sales discipline to capture significant market share.   A nationally recognized “Printing Industry Pro”, Steve is particularly adept at product innovation, marketing, business development, global operations and M&A. His 20 years in digital printing included notable achievements having developed a patented color control system that achieved 99.8% color accuracy and securing an exclusive agreement to produce all printed products for Apple’s iPhoto® clients.  Steve earned his BS, International Business from Chapman University, Orange CA.    Active members of their local community, Steve and his wife, Hayley, are residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro area. Together, they combine their passion for global travel with broad-reaching humanitarian efforts including dental and medical triage units, sourcing supplies for schools and building fresh-water wells.

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Private equity portfolio executive with expertise utilizing advanced technologies to create differentiated product portfolios to disrupt existing markets at Fortune 500, Private Equity-owned, and Venture Capital backed companies. Builds global alliances to accelerate customer penetration, competitive differentiation, and market expansion. Scaled eight of the ten product portfolios with strategic customers and global partners to #1 Global Market Share, with three portfolios exceeding $1B in revenue. Managed P&L’s from $500k to $450M with a focus on Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Critical Infrastructure, Robotics, Semiconductors, and Telecommunications industries. Achieves revenue and profitability growth across companies and market verticals utilizing all sales methods (Direct Sales, Channel/Distribution, Value Added Resellers, Products, Services, Licensing). Has established a culture of employee ownership and engagement in teams from 3 to 425, across one to eight international sites. David is currently consulting with Company Owners on Growth and Go-To-Market strategies leveraging Emerging Technologies such as artificial intelligence, geospatial, image processing, predictive analytics, and robotics. Previously he started one VC-funded company and led one VC-funded company in the industrial asset health determination business. He’s led businesses and divisions of larger companies ranging from start-ups to multi-billion-dollar categories at LSI Logic, Qualcomm, and Freescale. He is known for utilizing advanced technology to create differentiated product portfolios to disrupt existing markets. He has hired/led multi-national teams and built customer relationships in Australia, China, Eastern Europe, Japan, Korea, North America, Scandinavia, Singapore, Taiwan and Western Europe. He has BS degrees in Physics and Mathematics, and an MS in Physics focused on Advanced Signal and Image Processing using Wavelets. All three degrees are from the University of Missouri- Columbia.