We buy businesses for the long haul
Rose Holding Co. acquires well-run, profitable, small and medium sized businesses, and takes their long-term success as seriously as the people who built them.
How we think about acquisitions
We're drawn to businesses that are steady, profitable, and run on reality rather than hype. Before any conversation about price, we take the time to understand what actually makes the business work: its operating model, its customers, and its people.
A business that has been built carefully over years deserves a buyer willing to look just as carefully before taking it on.
What happens after we acquire
Rose Holding Co. isn't built to assemble businesses and move them along. Once we take on a business, we intend to hold it: investing in the people and systems that make it work, rather than stripping them out for a short-term return.
We're early in this work, and building deliberately. Our portfolio will grow the same way we evaluate any acquisition: carefully, and one decision at a time.
Meet our founders
Wesley Clanton
Wesley's first businesses were a lawn care company and a snow plow operation, built the way most small businesses are: by showing up, doing consistent work, and earning repeat customers. That grounding shaped how he approaches every business since: start with what actually keeps customers coming back, not what looks good on paper.
His career since has spanned maritime operations as a licensed deck officer, fleet management as a Marine Superintendent, and transportation strategy consulting at McKinsey, where he advised Fortune 100 C-suite clients on how global logistics networks move and evolve. Today, he shapes procurement and maintenance strategy at United Airlines, one of the world's largest aviation operations. Across every setting, Wesley brings the same operator's mindset: understand how the business actually runs, then build the systems and teams that let it run better.
Sergio Velasquez-Rose
Sergio began his career as a chemical engineer, spending nearly a decade running large-scale energy infrastructure projects across the US, Norway, and Australia, which demanded holding an entire operation in view while still finding the one constraint that mattered. A Harvard MBA took him from the field into the boardroom, where he joined McKinsey's Growth, Marketing & Sales practice, advising C-suite leaders in retail and hospitality seeking growth opportunities and transforming their operations to achieve that ambition.
He later took an operating seat at Saks OFF 5TH, backed by private equity firm Insight Partners, leading customer strategy and marketing technology. Across his career, Sergio has led people as different as construction crews, retail associates, and teams of strategists and data scientists: leadership built on understanding the actual work, not just managing from above.
Let’s talk
If you're a broker, an owner, or an advisor, we'd like to hear from you. Tell us a bit about the business, and we'll be in touch.