Branford Castle has promoted Marilyn Yang to Vice President.
At Branford Castle, Ms. Yang’s responsibilities encompass all aspects of deal origination through deal completion, including portfolio company oversight.
Before joining Branford Castle in 2018, Ms. Yang worked as an investment banking analyst in the industrials group at Barclays where her work focused on mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt financing transactions.
Ms. Yang is active with several of the firm’s portfolio companies including ABC, an Indiana-based manufacturer of flexible ventilation products and technical fabrics (August 2019); Sunless, an Ohio-based maker of spray tanning equipment and supplies (August 2019); Vitrek, a California-based maker of electrical safety test and measurement equipment (January 2018); and Earthlite, a California-based manufacturer of massage tables and other beauty and wellness equipment (July 2016).
Ms. Yang has her undergraduate degree in economics, with concentrations in finance, marketing and strategic management, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Branford Castle invests in companies that have enterprise values of up to $100 million and EBITDA of less than $15 million. Sectors of interest include consumer products and services, commercial distribution, industrials and specialty manufacturing, business services, and logistics.
A recent acquisition by Branford Castle was the June buy of Handi Quilter, a Utah-based manufacturer and designer of quilting machines, from Premier Needle Arts, a portfolio company of Blue Point Capital. Handi Quilter sells both branded and private label longarm quilting machines. The company also produces quilting tables and frames as well as quilting accessories including replacement parts, scissors, rulers, templates and patterns.
For the past 15 years, New York City-based Branford Castle has been led by John S. Castle and David Castle. Included in the day-to-day management team of the firm is Managing Partner Laurence Lederer.
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