Current Projects

Hollerith Technologies - EdTech

Project Silver - Industrial Tech

H.F.Vickers is the anchor investor in an innovative application that assists parents in managing their child's screen time while providing an incentive to expand general knowledge and interest in a range of topics.

Project Silver - Industrial Tech

H.F.Vickers is currently working to assist a company on strengthening corporate structure and strategy while identifying one or more strategic industrial partner(s) or capital source(s) to advance development of their innovative hybrid engine technology and the related portfolio of patents.

Project Lima - Healthcare Services

H.F.Vickers is in the middle of developing a middle-market PE project with potential for "roll-up" growth of a fragmented sector of healthcare services.

Project Sierra - Shipping

Project Lima - Healthcare Services

H.F.Vickers is working with a leading US marine technology firm and major far-East shipyard on development of a new class of hybrid propulsion tanker.

Our CEO's Past PE Highlights

MV American Phoenix

Construction and operation of a US Jones Act product/chemical tanker. The investment involved the distressed purchase of a partially built vessel from a failed project of a major oil company. Successful completion, operation and final realization resulted in attractive return performance.

Global SuperTanker

MV American Phoenix

Conversion of a 747-400 freighter into the world's largest aerial firefighting tanker. In a world where wildfires are increasing in size, speed of growth and destructive power, the SuperTanker delivers unmatched capacity, range and speed of global response.

Base-Load Electric Generating Station

Active operational and engineering engagement with the utility partner resulted in successful resolution of numerous areas of misalignment of interest and ultimate negotiation of profitable realization of undivided ownership interest.

PE Fund Formation/Management

Base-Load Electric Generating Station

Led capital raising for firm's two principal funds totaling approximately $1.2Bn of equity, deployed in approximately $2.5 Billion in assets across multiple capital industry sectors (shipping, aviation, power, energy). Member of Investment Committee, extensive relationship networks in capital industries, technical/engineering disciplines, operating partners and financial/legal resource providers. Chairman or member of the Board of Directors for multiple portfolio companies.

Institutional Investment Expertise

Shipping

Crude Tankers, Product Tankers, LNG Tankers and specialty Container/Ro-Ro Vessels

Rail

Shipping

North American Freight Locomotives and railcars and re-build/life extension programs

Power

Shipping

Energy

Generation and Transmission, Coal, Nuclear, Combined Cycle, US and International

Energy

Industrial

Energy

Offshore and land-based drilling, production platforms and mining

Aviation

Industrial

Narrow-body, Wide-body and regional aircraft

Industrial

Steel, Energy Management and Process Management