Ricardo Gonzalez

Partner at Summit Partners

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2022
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Deal lead and Board Member - Audit and Comp Committee
Aug 2022
Summit Wash Holdings is an industry-leading, membership-focused car wash group with operations in Connecticut, New York, Nebraska, Kansas, and Florida. Summit, along with its car wash brands Russell Speeders and Waters car wash are driven by an unwavering focus on its employees and a commitment to providing industry-leading operational excellence through the use of its proprietary technology and process solutions. This culture of employee-centricity, operational excellence, and a dedication to delivering the best customer service in the industry has been cultivated over a 50-year operational history at Russell Speeders. The Summit team is dedicated to bringing this culture of excellence to even more communities.
Board Member
Dec 2021
Alpine Intel is dedicated to innovation across a broad range of property insurance intelligence – helping our customers reach peak performance throughout the policy life cycle. Through our operating brands, Donan, HVACi, and StrikeCheck, we are respected as the industry leader for our scale and our track record of conducting expert, specialized, and accurate investigations. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, our team of experienced professionals provides high-quality solutions nationwide. Our commitment to delivering actionable intelligence is the essence of Alpine Intel. Alpine Intel. Decide Right.
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2024
Partner
Sep 2024
Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. The Summit Partners’ strategy is grounded in a foundational belief that profitable growth is the most reliable path to building a durable business and creating long-term value. For four decades, the Summit team has focused on partnering with and powering the growth of great people and great companies. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries including financial services, consumer, business services and industrial technology. These companies have completed more than 175 public equity offerings, and more than 250 have been acquired through strategic mergers and sales. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world.
2022
Deal lead and Board Member - Audit and Comp Committee
Aug 2022
Summit Wash Holdings is an industry-leading, membership-focused car wash group with operations in Connecticut, New York, Nebraska, Kansas, and Florida. Summit, along with its car wash brands Russell Speeders and Waters car wash are driven by an unwavering focus on its employees and a commitment to providing industry-leading operational excellence through the use of its proprietary technology and process solutions. This culture of employee-centricity, operational excellence, and a dedication to delivering the best customer service in the industry has been cultivated over a 50-year operational history at Russell Speeders. The Summit team is dedicated to bringing this culture of excellence to even more communities.
2021
Board Member
Dec 2021
Alpine Intel is dedicated to innovation across a broad range of property insurance intelligence – helping our customers reach peak performance throughout the policy life cycle. Through our operating brands, Donan, HVACi, and StrikeCheck, we are respected as the industry leader for our scale and our track record of conducting expert, specialized, and accurate investigations. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, our team of experienced professionals provides high-quality solutions nationwide. Our commitment to delivering actionable intelligence is the essence of Alpine Intel. Alpine Intel. Decide Right.
2020
Board Member
Jan 2020
Classic Collisions home on LinkedIn! Follow us for updates on employment opportunities, auto body repair industry news, and company growth announcements. If you are interested in having Classics management team consider your location for acquisition contact us directly. We are a nationally recognized, state-of-the-art collision repair company that started in 1983 with one location in Atlanta, GA, now we have over 175 locations. At Classic Collision there is a single goal: to offer quality service to its customers with honesty and integrity. We do this by employing the best talent and using the highest-quality materials. Our mission at Classic Collision is to provide our customers with personalized, small-town customer service and high-end, quality auto body repairs that they can trust for years to come! With our commitment to continued training, embracing technological advancements, and investing our resources within our highly capable team members- we are sure to see more growth. We are always interested in pursuing new; high-quality locations for acquisition, and talented, professional team members! You can follow us on: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ClassicCollisionGA
2018
Managing Director & Investor
Jan 2018
New Mountain Capital (“New Mountain”) is an alternative investment manager with private equity, credit and net lease strategies. New Mountain’s aggregate assets under management total ~$50 billion across all investment strategies.* Since inception, New Mountain has raised over $27 billion of committed capital across six private equity funds. New Mountain was founded in 1999 by Steven B. Klinsky and today has ~245 employees, ~145 of which are investment professionals. New Mountain’s efforts emphasize intensive fundamental research and a focus on growth and investor “value added,” rather than reliance on excessive risk, as the best path to high and consistent long-term returns. New Mountain has proactively developed particular research and operational expertise in carefully selected “defensive growth” niches of healthcare, health tech, life science supplies/biomanufacturing, “must have” information and data, digital marketing & transformation, infrastructure services/field services, specialized software, defensive growth consumer/products, financial services / technologies and technology-enabled business services. New Mountain Capital works systematically to establish expertise in additional sectors over time. * Includes asset valuations and remaining commitments (if applicable) as of December 31, 2023 and undrawn capital as of December 31, 2023. Pro forma for capital committed as of April 1, 2024)
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