About Us

We are independent private investors and residents of the Tampa Bay community seeking to acquire a local manufacturing business.

We are committed to investing our capital, experience and hard work into a local business that will grow and contribute to the region for years to come.

We are not strategic buyers or private equity looking to roll-up, reorganize and/or resell an established business. We are committed for the long term.

Tyler Cathey

Tyler has a range of experience leading and growing an operating business, managing a large, state-wide political agency, and providing legal services to sophisticated regional and national businesses.  He currently serves as the first in-house legal counsel for a private equity based commercial real estate firm overseeing multiple types of asset-based transactions.  Prior to this role he was the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for a commercial real estate service and advisory firm. From 2014-16 Tyler served as the Chief Deputy Attorney General for the State of Florida and prior to 2014 he was an attorney with the national law firm Holland and Knight. 

Tyler earned a bachelor’s degree from Muhlenberg College where he was a four-year varsity athlete in football and wrestling. He earned his law degree from the University of Florida. He has served in multiple governor-appointed roles and on the board of directors for Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay. 

He and his wife have lived in Tampa since 2007, and have four school aged children enrolled at Christ the King Catholic School and Academy of the Holy Names. Tyler captained the 2010 Tampa Bay Area Rugby Football Krewe team to the USA Rugby Men’s Amateur Division National Championship.

Pete Franke

Pete has substantial business transactions and management experience. Until recently he was the owner and operator of a multi-location car wash business located in Tampa. Prior to that Pete was the Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Kforce, a publicly traded staffing company headquartered in Tampa Bay. Pete began his career practicing corporate transactional law with the law firm of Shutts and Bowen where he counseled clients in a wide-variety of corporate and business transactional matters including mergers and acquisitions, business formation and reorganization, public and private securities and corporate governance.   

Pete has lived in Tampa since 2005 and has extensive ties to the region. He has two children attending Berkeley Preparatory School. Pete enjoys skiing, golf and travel and is active with the Tampa Bay Humane Society.

Pete holds a Master of Business Administration from Purdue University with a concentration in finance and marketing, a Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from DePauw University.