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Ryan Roberts

Vice President

Ryan Roberts is a vice president at Crestview, focusing on investments across industries. In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball, spending time with his nephews and rewatching old sitcoms.

Bio

Ryan Roberts joined Crestview as a summer vice president in 2020 and rejoined in 2021 as a vice president after receiving an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Emerald, Modern Wealth Management and Upwell Water. Ryan previously served on the boards of directors of WOW! and Silver Creek Exploration. As a vice president, Ryan evaluates, executes and monitors investments in a variety of industries. Before attending business school, Ryan worked at Newstone Capital Partners, a mezzanine debt firm, where he helped lead the firm’s investing efforts in middle-market companies across a broad range of sectors. He started his career as an analyst in Credit Suisse’s investment banking division. Ryan received a B.A. in economics from Vanderbilt University.

Investments

Emerald EMS

Industrials

Current Portfolio

Emerald is an electronics manufacturing services provider specializing in high-mix, low-volume engineering, design, prototyping, testing, assembly and lifecycle support services for blue-chip original equipment manufacturers across a range of end markets.

Modern Wealth Management

Financial Services

Current Portfolio

Modern Wealth Management is a national registered investment advisory (RIA) firm reimagining the delivery of financial advice. MWM was designed to anticipate the needs of Americans at every stage in life by providing a full suite of wealth management services.

Protect My Car

Financial Services

Realized

Protect My Car is a vertically integrated seller and administrator of vehicle service contracts and maintenance products that protect used vehicle owners against unexpected costs of servicing, repairs and replacement.

Silver Creek Exploration

Oil & Gas

Current Portfolio

Silver Creek Exploration is a privately held exploration and production company that was formed at the end of 2011. It focuses on the acquisition and development of out-of-favor unconventional oil and gas assets located primarily in Texas and Oklahoma.

Silver Creek Permian

Oil & Gas

Realized

Silver Creek Permian is a privately held exploration and production company formed in 2018 through a spinoff from Silver Creek Oil & Gas. It focuses on the acquisition and development of unconventional oil and gas assets in the Permian basin in western Texas.

U.S. Well Services

Oil & Gas

Current Portfolio

USWS is a hydraulic fracturing services company. Its proprietary (Clean Fleet) technology seeks to be transformative for the industry and bring significant cost, efficiency and environmental benefits to customers.

Upwell Water

Financial Services

Current Portfolio

Upwell Water is a specialty finance company focused on providing capital markets solutions to small & medium sized water infrastructure assets. The firm partners with providers and end users of water solutions with tailored financing alternatives.

Venerable Holdings

Financial Services

Current Portfolio

Venerable Holdings is a leading consolidator of closed variable annuity blocks and operates the legacy variable annuity business of Voya Financial, Inc.

WOW!

Media

Current Portfolio

WOW! is the sixth largest cable operator in the U.S., with over 770,000 customers in 19 markets across the Midwest and Southeast as of September 30, 2017. It offers a full suite of residential cable and commercial services including video, telephone and data.