Silver Canyon Group of San Diego

The Silver Canyon Approach

We seek to partner with exceptional management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to dynamic businesses that can benefit from our operational focus.

Value-Added Investor

Silver Canyon’s investing strategy aligns our interests with management teams and other owners. We work closely and collaboratively with our management teams to enhance the long-term value of our portfolio companies.

Both Control and Non-Control Investments

Our resources, strategic insights, long-term orientation and operational focus provide companies with an important advantage.

Alignment of Interests

Silver Canyon succeeds when you succeed because our interests and incentives are aligned with the shareholders. We earn our returns from building a stronger business and increasing equity value rather than from financial engineering, or restructuring.

Flexible Transaction Approach

We customize our investment structure to meet the immediate and longer-term objectives of a business’s owners and management team.

Long-Term Perspective

Silver Canyon has a 5-7 year investment horizon and is focused on creating long-term value by providing capital and strategic insight to help management teams build their businesses and create sustainable value

Experienced Investment Team

Silver Canyon’s investment professionals have extensive transactional experience and deep industry knowledge. Silver Canyon’s principals have an average of 22 years of private equity experience.

Capital and Expertise Maximizing Value

Silver Canyon has extensive capital markets experience, and we are able to assist businesses as they seek to achieve an effective and appropriate capital structure to foster sustainable growth.

Add-On Acquisition Expertise

Silver Canyon has extensive experience in helping management identify, evaluate, negotiate, finance and importantly, integrate strategic add-on acquisitions

Proven Track Record

Silver Canyon and its principals have generated superior investment results over the last 20 years. We have an outstanding record of assisting companies in realizing their growth objectives and dramatically increasing value for all shareholders.

Meet Our Team

Tim Kelleher

Tim Kelleher is Managing Partner of Silver Canyon Group and Managing Partner of KMCP Advisors ll. KMCP, formerly known as PCG Coprporate Partners Advisors ll, was a spin-off from Pacific Corporate Group Holdings. Prior to this, Mr. Kelleher was a Partner and Senior Vice President with Desai Capital Management where he was responsible for sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and monitoring leveraged buyouts and later-stage growth financings. Prior to Desai, Mr. Kelleher was an Associate with Entrecanales, Inc., where he identified, analyzed, and negotiated later-stage growth capital and management buyout investment opportunities for a Madrid-based family. Before Entrecanales, Mr. Kelleher was an Associate with L.F. Rothschild & Co. where he executed leveraged buyouts and mergers and acquisitions advisory assignments. Mr. Kelleher began his career in the audit practice of Arthur Young & Company. Mr. Kelleher received his Master's in Accounting from New York University and his BA in History from Hamilton College. Mr. Kelleher has been a board directory of many companies, including three that were publicly traded. Mr. Kelleher is currently a Director of Allied Resource Corporation, Quantum Restaurants, and Mach 1 Foods, LLC.

Doug Hall

Doug Hall joined Silver Canyon in 2014. Mr. Hall previously worked as a Senior Consultant of Avant Advisory Group where he was involved in operational restructuring and refinancing processes for middle-market companies. He began his career as an Associate with D.E. Shaw & Co. where he was involved in evaluating distressed and infrastructure investments as well as portfolio asset allocation. Mr. Hall received an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2010 and a BA in Economics with a Minor in Mathematics from Brigham Young University in 2004.

Samantha Sacks

Samantha Sacks is the Chief Financial Officer of Silver Canyon Group and KMCP Advisors ll. Ms. Sacks previously worked with Mr. Kelleher at Pacific Corporate Group, where she was CFO. Prior to this, she was CFO of Torrey Pines Capital Management ("TPCM"), a San Diego-based Hedge Fund. Prior to TPCM, she worked for CIGNA Corporation where she assisted in the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley and was a Controller in the group insurance division. Ms. Sacks began her career as an auditor at Arthur Andersen in Cape Town, South Africa, before relocating to Philadelphia, PA with the firm. Ms. Sacks completed her undergraduate and graduate work (Bachelor of Business Science degree in Finance and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Accounting) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is an active CPA (licensed in California), and a member of the Financial Executives Networking Group, as well as CFO Roundtable.

Our Portfolio

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Puraglobe

We're innovators. We're engineers (and experts). And we're all dedicated to developing sustainable innovations for the oil industry—and changing the way the world uses oil.

Fulcrum Building Group

Fulcrum Building Group is a multi-brand operator of pro-focused lumberyards in the Florida Panhandle and Alabama.

AECOM

AECOM Technology Corp. is an employee-owned company providing engineering, design and management services.

Allied Resource Corporation

Allied Resource Corporation is a global climate technology group operating and servicing energy related businesses worldwide. The company’s operations are based on proprietary technologies for the production of synthetic natural gas from coal, reduction of CO2, NOx and sulphur emissions, the refining of waste oils into high quality oil products, the treatment of industrial waste water and the incineration of sludge and pelletized residues.

Backyard Broadcasting

Backyard Broadcasting operates radio station clusters in small to medium markets. The company currently owns and operates 27 stations.

eCORP

eCORP is a Houston, Texas-based energy company which, through its subsidiaries, affiliates and related entities, is engaged in the development and operation of natural gas storage facilities, natural gas pipelines, electric power plants and other energy related facilities.

SymphonyIRI

Information Resources Inc. (now called SymphonyIRI) provides consumer packaged goods, retail, and healthcare industries with sophisticated retail transaction and consumer behavior data and analytics. The company provides a variety of consulting and advisory services developed from experience and built on a foundation of predictive analytical models, breakthrough information processing, and business intelligence capabilities.

Lincoln Paper and Tissue

Lincoln Paper and Tissue is the largest producer of deep-dyed tissue in the United States. Lincoln also manufactures other tissue grades run from napkin stocks to wet strength toweling, as well as industrial specialties such as tissue stock for health care products. Lincoln also manufactures premium quality Business Reply Card, Offset, Index, and Vellum Bristol as well as quality Bleached Kraft Pulp.

ORBCOMM Inc.

ORBCOMM Inc. owns and operates a global two-way network of 30 low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites and ground infrastructure that enable subscribers to track, monitor, control and communicate with fixed and mobile assets.

Sunflower Farmers Market

Sunflower Farmers Market operates a chain of value-oriented natural and organic grocery stores that offer a high quality assortment of natural and organic products at prices that are substantially lower than competitors. Sunflower merged with Sprouts Farmers Market in May 2012 to create one of the largest grocers in the Western United States with 144 stores (and growing).

WebMD Health Corporation

WebMD Health Corporation provides expert health information, supportive communities, and in-depth reference materials to consumers, doctors, and companies.

RP Holdings

RP Holdings provides a suite of non-legal administrative, accounting, technology services and information, data and document collection, transmission and processing services as well as title, escrow closing, private trustee, and posting and publication services in support of firms engaged in various aspects of mortgage loan default services, including foreclosure, bankruptcy, eviction processing, and related title and REO closing, escrow and management services.

Latest News

Fulcrum Building Group Annouces Sale to Builders FirstSource

December 15, 2022, Navarre, Florida

Fulcrum Building Group (“Fulcrum”) announced today the sale of 100% of the business to Builders FirstSource. Terms of the transaction were not provided.

Fulcrum supplies building materials primarily to custom home builders and remodel contractors from eleven locations along the rapidly growing Northern Gulf Coast. Fulcrum’s product offerings include complete lines of lumber, sheet goods, doors, windows, millwork and value-added services such as door fabrication and custom millwork. Also, in Spring 2023, Fulcrum is also scheduled to open a roof and floor truss manufacturing plant in Defuniak Springs, FL.

Fulcrum was formed in 2019 by Silver Canyon Group, LLC to acquire South Bay Lumber and Navarre Lumber. Over the past 3+ years Fulcrum has grown revenues over 5-times through a combination of the organic initiatives and strategic acquisitions of Ford Lumber and Southeastern Sash Door. Organic growth initiatives included opening two greenfield locations as well as expanding the offering of value-added products.

Builders FirstSource (“BFS”), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is the largest US supplier of building products, prefabricated components and value-added services to the professional market segment for new residential construction and repair and remodeling. BFS operates in 42 states with over 500 location. BFS’s annual sales are about $22.7 billion.

Fulcrum is majority-owned by investment funds managed by Silver Canyon Group, LLC. Tim Kelleher, Chairman of Fulcrum and Managing Partner of Silver Canyon Group said “We feel incredibly fortunate to have worked with the founders of South Bay, Navarre, Ford and Southeastern to create the leading provider of building materials in our region. Our success is due to the dedication and integrity of this team.

Bobby Killingsworth, CEO of Fulcrum said “The combination with BFS gives Fulcrum greater resources that will enable Fulcrum to better serve its customer and will increase the opportunity for growth and development of the next generation of leadership.”

Silver Canyon Group has 30+ years of experience providing capital and operational support that accelerates the growth of middle-market companies. Prior investments by Silver Canyon and its predecessors have included Quantum Restaurants, Mach 1 Foods, Sunflower/ Sprouts Farmer’s Market, Widmer Brewing, Eye Care Centers of America, Brown Jordan, and Information Resources Inc.

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