Holt Ventures Names Bridgman Partner, Leading Direct Investment Portfolio

Holt Ventures, the corporate investment division of Holt Cat, announced Adam Bridgman was named partner, managing the company’s investment portfolio and sourcing new opportunities that fit its investment criteria. Bridgman will be responsible for leading the investment process, from risk analysis and due diligence to closing.

Michael Roth

July 13, 2018

Holt Ventures, the corporate investment division of Holt Cat, announced Adam Bridgman was named partner, managing the company’s investment portfolio and sourcing new opportunities that fit its investment criteria. In this role, Bridgman will be responsible for leading the investment process, from risk analysis and due diligence to closing.

Bridgman will also continue to support Holt Ventures’ existing portfolio of companies and evaluate opportunities for follow-on funding.

“Over the last few years, Holt Ventures has had the opportunity to work with and mentor a number of truly innovative companies that are bringing new solutions and smart technologies to our industry,” said Bridgman. “I look forward to continuing to define our strategic approach to investments and further promote our corporate mission.”

Bridgman joined Holt Ventures as managing director in 2014, helping launch the Holt Ventures investment platform focused on emerging companies in the construction and heavy equipment industries. Bridgman has an investment banking background, previously serving as an analyst for J.P. Morgan where he participated in all stages of leveraged finance transaction within its Diversified Industries Group. He graduated from the University of Texas, has a master’s in professional accounting from McCombs School of Business and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.

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Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.