A Differentiated Private Investment Platform

4100FS offers permanent capital solutions and flexible deal structuring in the provision of comprehensive, best-in-class quality financial services on a business- to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) basis.

Overview

The 4100 Group Financial Services (4100FS) is a comprehensive financial services platform with significant capital designated for organic and inorganic growth. Standing at the forefront of innovation in financial services investing, 4100FS provides a unique combination of long-term capital investment and sector expertise to promote transformative growth. As a permanent capital partner, 4100FS is dedicated to the prosperity of our investment partners, ensuring alignment of economic incentives, ongoing support via robust, centralized infrastructure, value delivered through our existing ecosystem of portfolio companies, and an experienced leadership team of subject matter experts.

Our mission is to reshape the intersection between financial wellness and the broader financial services industry by making strategic investments in client-facing and client-supporting services. We collaborate with companies across all phases of development, providing customized deal structure optionality.

Approach

Innovative approach to private investment in financial services, offering flexible capital solutions to promote sustainable growth and best-in-class client service.

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Verticals

Actively seeking investments in four key verticals to develop a comprehensive offering that spans the continuum of B2B and B2C financial services.

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Portfolio

Synergy and value creation delivered through our ecosystem of highly complementary portfolio companies and robust support services infrastructure.

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Executive Team

Sector specialization backed by a highly qualified executive leadership team with subject matter expertise and diverse operational capabilities.

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Approach

Differentiated Private Investment Platform

Permanent capital provider offering stable commitment in conjunction with a long term, growth-oriented strategic focus

Comprehensive, centralized support services infrastructure and access to the broader 4100FS ecosystem, enabling our partners to realize meaningful synergies

Flexibility in deal structure, allowing us to achieve a mutually beneficial outcome for all stakeholders

Accomplished executive leadership team with extensive subject matter expertise in financial services and a track record of success

Willingness to invest in partners’ growth where appropriate ROI exists, focusing on profitability and alignment

Growth facilitated through multi-faceted organic and inorganic strategies, focused on accretive partnerships and best-in-class service delivery

Multi-faceted Growth Strategy

Sustainable growth is driven by a multi-faceted organic and inorganic strategy, leveraging an established playbook to secure strategic partnerships and leverage platform advantages while promoting best-in- class service delivery.

Secure high-value strategic partnerships

  • Leverage sector specialization, extensive referral network, and dedicated team to drive a high-quality deal pipeline, targeting exceptional candidates for partnership opportunities
  • Secure strategic partnerships through flexible deal structures, including majority/minority equity investments, preferred equity, lines of credit, and revenue sharing arrangements
  • Process intensity, efficiency, and transparency throughout all phases, leveraging dedicated personnel to promote a positive deal experience for partners and mitigate integration risk

Deliver sustained organic growth

  • Promote a culture of operational and service excellence across the 4100FS platform, enabling organic growth through existing client retention and new customer acquisition
  • Ecosystem of highly complementary portfolio companies offers material synergies, institutional knowledge, and margin enhancement via comprehensive shared services
  • Centralized back-office support for key operational capabilities, including accounting, HR, IT, compliance, and M&A, easing the administrative burden on our operating partners and enabling focus on best-in-class service delivery
  • Executive leadership team with extensive subject matter expertise working hand-in-hand with partners to serve as a resource and drive accountability in support of their growth plans

Verticals

Financial Services Verticals

A comprehensive offering spanning the continuum of financial services, in a B2B and B2C capacity, enables 4100FS to meet the needs of its partners and clients in support of growth.

Actively seeking investments in each of four key verticals within the financial services sector:

Wealth Management

Comprehensive investment advisory, outsourced CIO, and related financial planning services for high-net-worth and institutional clients.  4100FS partners include Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) serving as fiduciaries

Multi-Family Office

Tailored services directed toward both an ultra-high-net-worth client audience and other investment advisory firms serving those clients. Services, in addition to investment management, include outsourced CFO, bill paying, tax and estate planning, and philanthropy

Asset Management

Investment management firms offering proprietary investment strategies to institutional clients. 4100FS prioritizes building distribution channels for current portfolio company strategies and those that complement the wealth management and MFO verticals

Ancillary Services

Ancillary financial services that enhance 4100FS wealth management, MFO, and asset management verticals. Representative services include accounting, tax, trust, insurance, and wealth/asset management-focused fintech solutions

Portfolio

Active Investments

Our portfolio showcases a strategically driven, carefully curated selection of companies that complement the 4100FS ecosystem

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Gries Financial Partners

Wealth management

Registered Investment Advisor founded in 1978. Historically serving a high-net-worth family and institutional investor audience, Gries Financial Partners (GFP) also advises 401k retirement plans and small- to mid-sized foundations and endowments. Acquired by 4100FS in 2020, GFP serves as the anchor tenant of the wealth management segment and a foundational piece of the 4100FS strategy.

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Capital Portfolio Advisors

Wealth management

Registered Investment Adviser founded in 1993 and acquired by GFP in 2023. Capital Portfolio Advisors provides financial planning and investment management services on a fee-only basis to best meet clients’ needs.

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Bull Harbor Capital (BHC)

Wealth management

Bull Harbor Capital (BHC) is a Registered Investment Advisor formed by the owners of First Financial Group (FFG), one of the largest insurance agencies on the MassMutual network. FFG has over 200 advisors and serves a high net worth audience, which led to the creation of Bull Harbor. 4100FS provides operational and investment infrastructure to support BHC through a shared services agreement.

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Logix Smart Value Dividend

Asset management

Logix Smart Value Dividend has a successful track record dating back to 2002. Both directly and through institutional model delivery, Logix is a differentiated deep value strategy with a unique, objective methodology that has historically outpaced itsbenchmark with low downside capture, leading to consistent alpha generation. Logix serves as an attractive ‘preserve and grow’ strategy for institutional brokerage and turnkey asset management platforms, complementing other 4100FS business segments.

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Red Cedar Investment Management

Asset management

Majority employee owned, best-in-class institutional asset manager with a tenured Portfolio Management team. Red Cedar Investment Management is focused on developing long-term partnerships with clients by providing high quality, income producing strategies through research across the capital structure. With historical expertise in managing Preferred securities, Red Cedar has successfully expanded its service offering to provide broad appeal to institutional clients.

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The Family Office Resource Group (FORG)

Multi-family office

The Family Office Resource Group (FORG), formerly ExCel Global Family Office, is a boutique multi-family office advisory firm focused on providing strategic consulting and support services to an ultra-high net worth audience. FORG provides services including family office formation consulting, outsourced CFO, insurance, tax planning, philanthropy consulting, estate planning, and more, either directly to its core clientele or as an outsourced service provider to family offices, wealth management firms, and RIAs.

Executive Team

Rob Herman

Rob Herman

Managing Principal

Responsible for overall 4100FS oversight, growth and strategy.

  • Board of Managers, 4100FS portfolio companies: Gries Financial Partners; Bull Harbor Capital (Chairman); Family Office Research Group (FORG)
  • CIO, Logix Investments LLC (4100FS portfolio company)
  • CEO, Gries Financial Partners
  • Lead equity analyst, Goldman Sachs Investment Research
  • Chief Strategy Officer, Away.com (sold to Orbitz)
  • Board member of several philanthropic organizations
  • BA, University of Michigan, MBA Northwestern University
Ken Brodkowitz

Ken Brodkowitz

Chief Investment Officer

Oversight of investment strategy and process for 4100FS portfolio companies inclusive of GFP.

  • CIO, Gries Financial Partners
  • Founder & Managing Partner, Newland Capital Management ($1.3B hedge fund)
  • Hedge fund PM for multiple hedge funds including Balyasny and Galleon
  • Co-head proprietary trading, Goldman Sachs
  • BA, Johns Hopkins University, MBA Northwestern University
Daniel Bryant

Daniel Bryant

Principal

Leads the Multi-Family Office (MFO) division

  • Chairman, Family Office Research Group (FORG)
  • Founder and CEO, Sheridan Road Financial (nationally ranked by Barron’s and WSJ as a top three institutional investment consulting firm)
  • Senior investment banker, DLJ, Robertson Stephens, The Equity Group (Sam Zell)
  • Senior Advisor, Vistria Group
  • Board Member:  Provenance Vineyards, Flores, TMG, Commonwealth Alternatives, VIST Labs, Sheridan Road Charitable Foundation
  • Best-selling author, The Financial Wellness Mandate
  • BA, Dartmouth College, MBA Northwestern University
Jeff Palmer

Jeff Palmer

Executive Director, Integration

Leads integration strategy and implementation oversight related to all 4100FS acquisitions and partnerships.

  • 30+ year career at Gries Financial Partners serving in multiple roles including President, COO, CCO and Portfolio Manager
  • Board of Managers, Gries Financial Partners
  • Portfolio Manager, Logix Investments LLC
  • Successful entrepreneur earlier in his career
  • CIPM designation (Global Investment Performance Measurements)
Philip Bernadotte

Philip Bernadotte

Director, M&A

Manages the deal process for 4100FS from sourcing through deal close in collaboration with the leadership team.

  • Founder and Principal, Svea Capital
  • Investment Banker, Ernst & Young LLP; Marsh, Berry & Company
  • Associate Vice President, Business Owner Advisory Services, U.S. Bank
  • Production Accountant, independent and studio-backed feature films and commercial productions
  • BS, Ohio University, MBA Case Western Reserve University
Carina Diamond

Carina Diamond

Chief Growth Officer

Responsible for driving growth across 4100FS portfolio companies, including Gries Financial Partners

  • Chief Growth Officer, Gries Financial Partners
  • Built, grew and successfully exited three wealth management firms
  • CEO and Founder, Stella Secunda Partners, a succession planning, fintech and organic growth strategy consultancy
  • Board Member, The University of Akron Foundation; Akron Children’s Hospital Foundation and Investment Committee; RIA Institute
  • Founder, The Diamond Graduate Women’s Leadership Xperience
  • BA, The University at Albany; MBA, The University at Albany; CFP and AIF designations
Brian Durkin

Brian Durkin

Director, Compliance

Oversight of compliance programs for portfolio companies across the 4100FS platform

  • CCO, Gries Financial Partners
  • CCO & CFO, Lake Street Advisors
  • CCO:  Cadence Capital, Braver Wealth
  • Director of Operations:  SS&C Technologies, Congress Asset Management
  • Experience earlier in his career with Putnam Investments and Fidelity Investments
  • BA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; IAACP designation (Investment Adviser Certified Compliance Professional)
Jenni Needham

Jenni Needham

Chief Financial Officer

  • CFO, The 4100 Group
  • VP, Finance, Delta Dental of Michigan
  • Senior Auditor, Deloitte
  • Licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation
  • BBA, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
  • Leadership roles with several nonprofit organizations
Mary McCallum

Mary McCallum

Process Management Leader

  • Project Management Office Leadership roles: Delphi, Microsoft, United Airlines
  • Has worked with several financial companies as leader on project and process management
  • Professional experience includes managing teams for Electronic Data Systems, HP, HPE and DXC
  • BS, Computer Science, University of Michigan
Mackenzie DuBois

Mackenzie DuBois

HR Lead

  • Human Resources Manager for multiple firms including KTM Industries, Temper Pack Technologies
  • Recruiter, Trillium Staffing Solutions
  • Member, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
  • BS, Michigan State University

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