Peter “Chip” Vandenberg, Jr. joined Trivest Partners, L.P., the oldest and one of the largest private equity firms located in the Southeast, in 1987 and has been responsible for numerous acquisitions, refinancings, restructurings and dispositions. Trivest has sponsored more than 145 acquisitions and recapitalizations of smaller middle market founder/family owned companies throughout the U.S. and Canada, totaling in excess of $4.0 billion in value. Chip is one of four Partners who currently manage over $600 million of investment funds.
Chip is currently the Chairman of ATX Networks and Lady of America Gyms. For approximately half of his tenure with Trivest, Chip served as President, COO or CFO, operating a diverse group of more than 25 of Trivest’s portfolio companies. These responsibilities included financial, operational and administrative oversight, along with executing strategic opportunities in acquisitions, dispositions, product extensions, cost reductions and restructurings.
Prior to joining Trivest, Chip spent ten years with KPMG in New York and Miami, responsible for numerous middle market public and private clients and initial/secondary public offerings of equity and debt.
He is a certified public accountant and received his B.A. in accounting from William Paterson University in 1976. Chip is a member of the FICPA, NJSCPA and AICPA, a board member and past President of the South Florida Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, a member of the Strategic Forum and the Miami Business Network.
He is also a board member and Co-Chair of the Finance Committee of Camillus House, a Miami based charity, which is striving to eradicate chronic homelessness in Miami-Dade County. He is also on the Parents Committee and Presidents Circle at Fairfield University.