Partnering for long-term success.
Roland Capital Group aims to deliver exceptional returns to our investors and provide creative capital solutions to small- and medium-sized businesses. We execute two distinct but complementary capital deployment strategies.
Business building. Roland partners with owners of high-quality small- and medium-sized businesses to build for long-term success, providing capital solutions to owners looking to exit their businesses or enter their next stage of growth. We seek businesses that have a positive impact on their customers, employees, and communities.
Indirect investments. Roland partners with the world's premier investment firms to provide access to outstanding private equity performance to our limited partners.
Our team possesses deep investing and operational experience, and we are committed to producing excellent results for all transaction and business stakeholders.
Peter Dewire
Partner
Peter launched Roland's indirect private equity strategy in 2021. Peter has a decade of investing experience across corporate private equity, private infrastructure, and public equities. Most recently, Peter was a member of the investment team at Copia Power, a Carlyle-backed developer of utility-scale renewable energy infrastructure. Prior to that, he was a member of the investment team at Vista Equity Partners, a software-focused private equity investor with over $100 billion in assets under management.
Peter holds a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Yale University, where he was a member of the 2016 National Championship-winning Men's Varsity Squash team.
Daniel Tovbin
Partner
Daniel brings investing experience across private equity, growth equity, and venture capital. Prior to Roland, he held investing roles at Vector Capital, a $5B+ San Francisco-based private equity firm focused on technology buyouts, where he evaluated investments across software and infrastructure businesses, and Initialized Capital, a $3B+ venture capital firm, where he worked on 30+ investments ranging from Seed to pre-IPO companies, and helped scale the investment team to twice its original size while leading the firm's successful $750M fundraise.
He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a MS in Biotechnology from Harvard Medical School, and a Bachelor of Science from Yale University.
Ian Spear
Partner
Ian brings deep operational experience to the team, having led and scaled teams at high-growth Silicon Valley companies. Most recently, he served as Chief of Staff and Director of Product at Faire, a venture-backed company valued at $12 billion. At Faire, he built business lines from zero to tens of million in revenue, was responsible for scaling company operations as the company grew from 300 to 1,200 employees, and managed teams of up to 50. He previously served Fortune 500 clients across the technology, pharmaceuticals, energy, and hospitality sectors as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Ian holds a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Yale University.