Presenter

Jeffrey Kadlic

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Evolution Capital Partners

Jeffrey Kadlic spent the majority of his professional career in the financial services industry, investing in many different industries and business cycles prior to becoming the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Evolution Capital Partners LLC.. While practicing as an institutional investor, working in and around dynamic businesses, he recognized that growing small companies were often overlooked not because of their lack of potential, but rather due to their size and lack of process and infrastructure. Ultimately, this led to his transition from merely being part of the institutional investment system to taking the entrepreneurial leap and co-founding Evolution in 2005.  Using his experience as a founder and principal of Brantley Mezzanine Finance LLC, as well as his time at Prudential Capital Group and LaSalle National Bank, Jeffrey made it his mission to professionalize the art and science of small business investing. This involved more than providing capital, it meant introducing entrepreneurial companies to fundamental processes designed to help them effectively navigate the critical growth curve and create scale. To date, the result has been numerous recognitions on the Inc. 500|5000 and a sizable portfolio of successful companies.  Jeffrey graduated from Miami University in Ohio, where he received his B.A. degree, and later continued his education earning his M.M. degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. An Ernst & Young Entrepeneur of the Year Finalist in 2013, as well as a member of the 2009 Crain’s Cleveland Business 40 Under Forty class, Mr. Kadlic is also the current President of the Board for the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes. Jeffrey has extensive experience as an active participant on boards of directors, serving in that capacity with almost twenty companies over his career. A husband and father, Jeffrey lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with his wife, three sons and one daughter.

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