About Us | H.F.Vickers

Who We Are

H.F.Vickers is a private capital management firm focused on start-up and growth investments in targeted segments of the global economy. The firm specializes in venture-stage to middle market opportunities for key industries such as shipping, aerospace, land-based transport, energy, power, healthcare, and technology.

With the team's extensive experience and knowledge across multiple industries, combined with a global network of direct relationships with operators, constructors and investors in each sector, the strategies and resources employed help ensure success for all stakeholders. H.F.Vickers supports its investments with direct management involvement and access to financial resources, helping them to achieve scale through operating efficiency, organic growth, market positioning and add-on acquisitions.

The H.F.Vickers guiding principles are based on an investment strategy perfected during the 40 years of the founder's successful work in these industries through numerous industry cycles and periods of volatility.

At H.F.Vickers, we will continue to implement our disciplined strategies to deliver superior returns from our targeted, opportunity-driven markets.

Our Name

Our firm is named to commemorate Harry Franklin Vickers, an American inventor and industrialist, who is known as the “Father of Modern Hydraulics”. Harry Vickers held numerous patents in the hydraulics field, but is best known for his invention of the Vickers Balanced Vane Pump in the 1920s. His company, Vickers Inc., grew and merged with other businesses to ultimately become Sperry Rand Corporation, the 56th largest company in the US at the time of Mr. Vickers' retirement as Chairman, President and CEO. US and international engineering societies and associations continue to recognize the Vane Pump as a fundamental cornerstone of industrial technology and Vickers Vane pumps are in use in most industrial sectors today.

As grandson and namesake of Mr. Vickers, Harry Vickers Toll had a direct personal perspective on the manner in which Mr. Vickers conducted his business and personal life, and has been inspired by him throughout his own career. Harry learned countless lessons from his grandfather. Among the most enduring and influential have been:

1. Invest your life in building assets and businesses that provide real tangible value to society.

2. Work to ensure that every deal is a “Win-Win” for all parties involved.

With these concepts on which to build, Harry developed his strategy of investing in capital intensive assets and industries which are the building blocks of the modern global economy.