About Us
Right Lane Industries
Adam Caar
Developer
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RLI is an industrial holding company which focuses on acquiring lower middle market and middle market businesses from a range of situations.
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Healthy Operating Businesses
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Carve-Outs & Divestitures
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Underperforming & Turnaround Assets
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Distressed & Bankrupt Companies
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Other Esoteric Assets
RLI is majority owned and controlled by its management team, resulting in a number of advantageous dynamics for all counterparts.
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Boots-on-the-ground decision making allows for quick and transparent transactions from initial diligence through close.
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Long-Term to Permanent Investment Horizon allows for adequate investment in people, customer relationships, and product development.
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Short dated transition service agreements (TSAs) with corporate sellers due to RLI corporate resources.
RLI focuses on providing increased bandwidth and resources to its operating companies to execute on prudent growth over time. The keys to this approach are shared company resources: Finance, Purchasing, IT, HR, Strategy, and more.
Why "Right Lane"?
Adam Caar
Developer
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We are often asked why we named our firm Right Lane, which is commonly associated with the slow lane on a highway.
Drivers seeking the fastest route through traffic conventionally seek out the 'fast' left lane or attempt to swerve through traffic to gain an advantage. But in high traffic settings, the left lane invariably becomes over-crowded, with more cars in the lane resulting in more starts and stops, and slower progress; while frequent lane switching can result in accidents or bad bets.
Meanwhile, the right lane tends to suffer from net outflows of cars as drivers pull into the perceived faster lanes, or exit the highway altogether, and therefore offers the fastest and smoothest route.
Investing is a high traffic setting. The pursuit of investment returns is competitive.
Many investors attempt to generate returns by chasing the popular investment of the day (the financial equivalent of the left lane), or by making large numbers of trades (weaving through lanes). Right Lane focuses on overlooked or complicated situations that other investors often regard as "too difficult."
We conduct deep due diligence and make a small number of investments with conviction, with the intent of staying invested for extended periods of time-- longer than a traditional private equity investment horizon of 3 to 5 years.
Our Values
Reinvesting in Operating Companies
The desire for long dated success leads to the proper reinvestment of capital and other resources into people, products, and property.
Patient Ownership
Eliminates the need for short-sighted decision making to please semi-informed third party investors on a quarter to quarter basis.
Transparency and Speed of Execution
As a result of “on-the-ground” decision makers making real time decisions, as evidenced in the closing of previous acquisitions within 30 days of LOI execution.
Leadership
Eric Mara
CEO
Chad Jennings
VP of Supply Chain
Tina Matt
Director of Human Resources
Ryan Cotler
Associate
Woody Cissel
VP of Corporate Development
Tim Johnson
Director of Finance
Dewey Tsang
Director of Information Technology