ADVISORY TEAM & MANAGEMENT RESOURCES

Crosse+Partners has a large network of advisors and management resources that support our professional investment team.  Crosse+Partners’ world-class support team provides general strategic insight, industry perspective, transaction sourcing, and management contacts.  

Professionals

Zachary F. Fischer, CFA
Partner

Zach co-founded Crosse+Partners with the goal of combining his family business and entrepreneurial background with over 15 years of buy- and sell-side investment work. His experiences provide a unique perspective on the issues and challenges facing small, family-owned businesses as they look for liquidity and/or as they transition to larger, more balanced organizations. His primary responsibilities include evaluating new acquisition candidates, financing and closing transactions, as well as the on-going supervision and long-term financial development of portfolio companies.

Prior to Crosse+Partners, Zach led valuation and due diligence engagements on over 100 private companies with revenues ranging from $2 to $100 million. Critical tasks performed under his leadership included industry research, financial/valuation modeling, credit analysis and other qualitative tasks throughout the transaction. As a result of his work, over $300 million of liquidity was created for families and entrepreneurs through a range of creative and mutually beneficial transactions. Other prior experiences include: co-founding an online retailer of previously-owned vehicles and serving as an equity analyst with a $30 billion mutual fund. At the online retailer, Zach participated in structuring the early stage financing and negotiated a number of significant business development partnerships, which included winning a major contract to be the exclusive regional pre-owned vehicle retailer for the nation’s best-known automotive service brand. As an equity analyst, Zach served an institutional investor client base and covered the consumer/household products and food/beverage producers.

Zach has played an active role in guiding a number of companies as a director and an investor, including leadership on the Board of Directors of three of Crosse+Partners’ holdings. As a result of Zach’s involvement, Crosse+Partners’ portfolio companies have experienced a smooth transition of ownership, the addition of key managers, improved financial and operational reporting capabilities, successful achievement of key milestones, and the implementation of defined growth plans. In addition to his responsibilities within Crosse+Partners’ portfolio companies, Zach currently serves on the Advisory Boards of a national food coloring company as well as one of the largest automotive retail chains in the United States.

Zach has an MBA from the University of San Diego and a BS in finance from Syracuse University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the Financial Analyst Society of San Diego and the CFA Institute. Zach was also a member of the Syracuse University Lacrosse team winning two NCAA National Championships.

Alexander C. Hoggan
Partner

Alex joined Crosse+Partners in 2007 and is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and structuring growth equity and buyout transactions. Alex brings to Crosse+Partners over 10 years of experience in advising companies across various industries in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate strategy.

Prior to joining Crosse+Partners, Alex led a deal team in the investment banking division of a global accounting and consulting firm. Alex managed the successful completion of several merger and acquisition advisory assignments and served in a lead role for the rubber and plastics industry team, which completed several sell-side transactions during his five-year tenure. He also advised manufacturing, service, distribution and technology clients in a wide variety of industries, including medical products, aerospace and defense, healthcare services, consumer products, oil and gas, industrial services, printing and packaging, automotive and food/beverage.

His prior experience includes a position at a San Francisco-based full-service investment banking firm owned by a Fortune 100 bank. Throughout his career, Alex has had experience across many industries in analyzing and valuing companies for recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, and mergers and acquisitions.

Alex sits on the Board of Directors of two of Crosse+Partners’ holdings, including a manufacturer of branded consumer goods and a manufacturer of precision aerospace and defense components. He also serves on the advisory board of an industrial manufacturing and distribution company that specializes in highly engineered fluid power components. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia.