“I’m privileged to work with many great people across the capital markets, but my favorite contact is the business owner - the person who took the risk to build a business, scale it, and is now ready to take it to the next level. I’m most excited when partnering with these owners to accelerate growth into the next phase.”
Bridging Gaps. Andrew Tumilowicz founded Venue Strategy in 2010 to bridge the knowledge and communications gap between operating companies and institutional investors. Whereas operating companies typically know how to run their businesses quite well, owners often lack an understanding of how the institutional investment world works. Similarly, whereas institutional investors typically know finance and strategic market initiatives quite well, they often lack an understanding of the "nuts and bolts" on how to run a specific operating company. Venue Strategy works to bridge the resulting knowledge and communications gap for the benefit of operating company owners.
Background. Andrew Tumilowicz is a Founding Principal of Venue Strategy and its affiliate, Heritage Venue Advisors (HVA). Whereas Venue Strategy selectively partners with middle market operating companies, HVA advises institutional investors on matters surrounding independent valuation, due diligence, and financial modeling with focus on the real estate and middle market sectors.
Mr. Tumilowicz began providing consultancy services in 2010 after exiting his position as Managing Director with a multi-strategy alternative asset management fund. Initially founded as Koll-Eos in partnership with The Koll Company, Mr. Tumilowicz's consultancy comprises clients ranging from large private equity funds with $10B+ AUM to lower middle market funds and single family offices. Collectively, Mr. Tumilowicz contributed toward $5.5B+ of real estate and operating company transactions spanning equity and debt positions.
During the period 2011-2015, Mr. Tumilowicz was a primary advisor to Lgreen Capital, LLC, a direct peer-to-peer platform formed around private investors, private equity fund managers, companies seeking capital, and other market participants. In this capacity, Mr. Tumilowicz contributed to Lgreen Capital his relationships with 140+ private family investors and 200+ fund managers. These relationships provide unique market insight from investor principals across asset sectors.
Having directly operated both small and large scale real estate positions while partnering with middle market operating companies, Mr. Tumilowicz provides clients with invaluable operational insight paired to sophisticated financial acumen. After spending 12 years managing a real estate portfolio in the New York region, Mr. Tumilowicz joined XE Capital Management, a multi-strategy alternative investment fund with approximately $1B AUM. About half of XE Capital's assets were invested across large scale real estate development projects globally, Initially engaged to build XE Capital's asset management team and valuation methodologies, Mr. Tumilowicz ultimately took over the firm's real estate portfolio as Managing Director before exiting to found his own companies.
Mr. Tumilowicz holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics from Cornell University, and lives on the eastern end of Long Island with his family.