Cendry Capital, a private equity firm that acquires and operates mission critical Aerospace and Defense manufacturers, today announced the appointment of Anthony J. Folino III as Senior Advisor. Mr. Folino will work alongside the firm’s leadership to build the financial, operational and reporting infrastructure supporting both Cendry’s acquisition strategy and its relationships with the family offices and private investors who back the firm.

Mr. Folino served for more than two decades as Chief Financial Officer of Graham Partners, the Newtown Square, Pennsylvania-based private equity firm focused on industrial technology and advanced manufacturing. In that role, he built and led the firm’s finance, accounting, treasury, fund administration and investor reporting functions across multiple fund vintages, played a key leadership role in the firm’s compliance program, supported fundraising and investor communications, managed the firm’s audit, tax, technology and legal relationships relating to fund operations, accounting, finance, compliance, and corporate governance, and helped build the institutional infrastructure supporting billions of dollars in assets under management. At Cendry, Mr. Folino will advise on the design and buildout of the firm’s financial, operational, compliance and reporting infrastructure — including fund accounting and administration, investor reporting, valuation policy, audit and tax relationships, treasury management and back-office technology — and will serve as a strategic sounding board to the firm’s leadership.

“Tony spent more than twenty years constructing and running the financial and operational backbone of a highly successful firm that institutional investors came back to across multiple cycles. You cannot learn that from the outside. His judgment on sequencing — what to build now, what can wait, and what becomes harder to fix later — is exactly what a firm at our stage needs,” said Brandon Stewart, Founder and Managing Partner of Cendry Capital.

“We acquire businesses that make components which are not permitted to fail,” Mr. Stewart added. “We intend to hold ourselves to the same standard internally.”

About Cendry Capital

Cendry Capital is a private equity firm headquartered on the Philadelphia Main Line. The firm acquires and operates mission-critical aerospace and defense manufacturing businesses, partnering with management teams to strengthen operations, quality systems and customer relationships.

Mr. Folino is engaged as an independent advisor through Fountainhead Three LLC and is not an employee, officer, partner or agent of Cendry Capital. This announcement is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, nor shall it constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.

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