TROY TEMPLETON
MANAGING PARTNER, TRIVEST PARTNERS, CORAL GABLES
Trivest is a 40-year-old, middle-market private equity firm focused exclusively on founder-led and family-owned businesses. The firm has invested in 85 privately owned businesses in the past two years and was named by Inc. magazine as one of the top 50 founder-friendly private equity firms in the country for two years in a row. It has offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Toronto. Templeton says he “started at the bottom of our firm in 1989 and realized that there are many positives to committing yourself to one organization and helping build a culture and a team that is built to last.”
| EDUCATION | Stetson University (BA, MBA) |
| CIVIC EFFORT | Chair of Junior Achievement of Greater Miami, which focuses on educating K-12 students in financial literacy, entrepreneurship and career readiness |
| FLORIDA NEEDS | To continue to invest in the education of our K-12 students and importantly add to their curriculum the fourth “r” — the “real world,” how to earn a living and manage their financial lives |
| READING | Endurance, by Alfred Lansing |