Scott Galletti - Founder &
Managing partner PARTNER
Scott Galletti is the Founder and Managing Partner of GraceCap Investors. He has over 30 years of expertise in private equity, corporate finance, capital raising, operations, and scaling lower and middle-market companies.
Prior to founding GraceCap, he was a founding managing director at Tenex Capital Management where he was responsible for the origination and execution of many of the firm's initial investment platforms. He also led the firm's debt capital markets function and arranged the debt financing activities for all the firm's investments. During his tenure, Scott oversaw over $2 billion of debt placement at various Tenex portfolio companies.
Prior to Tenex, Scott was a Managing Director at Chilton Investment Company where he led the firm’s middle market private equity investing efforts.
Prior to Chilton Investment Company, he was a Managing Director at General Electric Capital Corporation, where for over 12 years he sourced and executed leveraged finance and equity investments and oversaw a number of financial restructurings and turnarounds. Scott was consistently rated in the top 1% of global employees and attended several advanced leadership classes at GE’s Jack Welch Crotonville leadership development center.
Prior to General Electric, Scott gained operating experience by overseeing manufacturing operations at Blinds To Go, a $125 million retailer/manufacturer, assisting in the turnaround of the domestic manufacturing facility and preparing the company for an initial public offering. That operational foundation — actually running a business before investing in others — informs how GraceCap engages with portfolio companies today.
He sat or currently sits on the Board of Directors of ION Monitoring Management, Glebar, Hub Pen, Fairmont Supply, Ohio Medical, Southern Carlson, CMP Pool Products, Brown Machine Group and Cadence Petroleum Corp - spanning the manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and industrial services sectors that define GraceCap's investment focus.
Scott holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in finance from Boston College.
In 2004, Mr. Galletti was awarded the distinguished “40 Under 40” Award from Crain's New York.
Scott founded GraceCap to build the kind of firm he had watched founders need but rarely find — small enough to give every transaction senior attention, experienced enough to handle complexity, and patient enough to stay involved long after closing.
Leadership Profile
Lean Firm. Deep Bench.
GraceCap is built lean by design — no bloat, no layers, no junior resources between owners and decisions. Unlike traditional private equity firms that staff deals with rotating associates and analysts, every interaction at GraceCap is with a senior professional. Owners deal directly with decision makers, from the first conversation through the close and beyond. What lets us operate this way is the Network. Every investment draws on a deep bench of senior operators, industry specialists, and capital partners — assembled deal-by-deal around the specific needs of the business.
That Network includes:
- Operating executives — current and former CEOs, COOs, and division presidents across manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and business services who serve as Board members, advisors, or interim leadership.
- Functional specialists — finance, HR, IT, operations, and commercial leaders deployed for specific post-close work: a 90-day cash management overhaul, an ERP implementation, a sales-team rebuild, a CFO search.
- Capital partners — senior lenders, mezzanine providers, and co-investors built up over decades of transactions. We can structure deals around the business and the owner's situation rather than forcing them into a single capital stack.
- Advisors — accountants, attorneys, and industry consultants we've worked with across multiple transactions, matched to the specific situation. Not your existing professional services team (which we'll work with too) — specialists who do this kind of work for a living.
The result: founders get the senior talent and institutional resources of a much larger firm — without the bloat, the layers, or the rotating associates that come with one.
Why this matters to owners
You are selling the business you spent decades building. You deserve a buyer who answers the phone themselves, knows your numbers cold, and stays in the seat through the entire transition — not a deal team of associates and analysts who rotate out the week after close.
That's what GraceCap is built to be.