Will Dobbs

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Biography

Mr. Will Dobbs serves as a Partner and Member of the Investment Committee at Sky Island Capital. Prior to joining Sky Island, he was a Partner at LongWater Opportunities, an operationally intensive lower middle market private equity firm focusing on majority buyouts of family-owned-and-operated U.S.-based manufacturing companies. At LongWater, he helped source, execute, and operate all the firm's investments and served on the board of each portfolio company. Prior to LongWater, he was a Vice President at Insight Equity, an operationally intensive middle market private equity firm with approximately $1.4 billion under management. Prior to Insight, he was an Associate at Quad-C Management, a middle-market private equity that has deployed over $3 billion of capital in middle-market companies over nearly three decades. Prior to Quad-C, he was an Analyst in the Industrial Growth & Services investment banking group of Wachovia Securities (now Wells Fargo). While receiving his MBA, he followed his passion for sports and joined the Strategy and Development group of the Chicago Cubs, where he worked with a small team to maximize value for the baseball club and related entities owned by the Ricketts family. He received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He also received his BSBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.