Dallas, Texas – August 10, 2021 – Sky Island Capital (“Sky Island”), a Dallas-based lower middle market private equity firm, is excited to announce the promotion of Michael Marsh to Vice President and the addition of Cyrus Hamid-Khani to the team as an Associate. Michael spent the past two years as an Associate and has been an integral part of Sky Island’s growing team. Cyrus joins Sky Island as an Associate after spending the past three years in investment banking with Deloitte Corporate Finance covering a variety of industries.
“We are very pleased to promote Michael to Vice President. Michael is not only deserving, but he is more than ready to take this next step in his career,” remarked Will Dobbs, a Partner of Sky Island. “We are also thrilled to add Cyrus to our team, who is a great fit and ready to hit the ground running working with our portfolio companies and helping us evaluate new investment opportunities.”
Sky Island has built a team of nine professionals and is currently investing out of its inaugural fund.
About Sky Island
Sky Island Capital (www.skyislandcap.com) is a lower middle market private equity firm based in Dallas, Texas that makes control investments in strategically viable North American manufacturing companies that exhibit transformational upside potential. Sky Island focuses on situations where it can draw upon its deep operational experience to support senior management in driving significant value creation through operational and strategic partnership, including add‐on acquisitions. Sky Island is comfortable with and has a history of executing transactions with complex dynamics, including corporate carve‐outs, public to privates, family‐owned businesses, lender‐controlled businesses, management buyouts, and other special situations.
