Why Trilon
We believe the Trilon group provides an ideal opportunity for successful infrastructure consulting firms to play a key role in shaping the future of the next top 20 firm in our industry.
Our partnership and investment model is unique:
- We accelerate the growth potential of our partners
- We partner with firms that share a similar culture and values
- We operate as a family of companies to better serve clients while preserving partner identity
- We create opportunities to monetize shareholder value and expand employee ownership
We intend to build a family of companies across Transportation, Water, Energy, Environment, and Community Infrastructure. This will also include family members is key geographic regions or nation-wide specialties.
We invest in growth
Our growth culture is about providing opportunities for people to expand their careers faster within the Trilon group than our peers. We support members of the Trilon group to make investments in Talent, Technology, and Targeted M&A.
Talent
Very simply, Trilon and its platform partners put people first. We know it is our extraordinary people who drive Smarter Solutions. Trilon invests in building leaders and retaining talent by offering opportunity for our people at every level.
Technology
An incredible opportunity exists today to innovate the way we work and the products we deliver to clients. Trilon will support our leadership to identify, pilot, and scale technology to develop our core competency and competitive advantage.
Targeted M&A
We bring the right partner companies together to create Smarter Solutions for our clients and open growth opportunities to propel the capabilities and careers of our people. We focus our investment on partners that share our values and provide complementary capabilities to accelerate organic growth.
We support partners to grow while doing no harm
We only invest in strong companies and place emphasis on leveraging the strengths of our partners in terms of their leadership structure, brand promise, and client service. This is reflected in our ‘do no harm’ philosophy of staff retention and business continuity while unlocking new growth opportunities.
Culture and Values
Very important that any potential partner shares our People-First approach, client-centric delivery model, and culture of integrity, quality, collaboration, and passion.
Successful Business
Preference for attracting strong performing businesses with sound financial performance, quality leadership and scalable systems and processes. We’re looking for partners to build around.
Visible & Recurring Revenue
Focus on repeat business, strong customer relationships, diversity of projects/programs and visible backlog.
Market Concentration
Majority of revenue generated in one or more our target markets of Transportation, Water, Utilities, Environment or Community Infrastructure, preferably within defined geographic regions.
Digital and Innovation
Desire or proven ability to leverage digital tools and innovation to create competitive advantage in terms of cost, quality and or schedule
Growth Mindset
Significant potential to bolster growth (organically or via M&A) in terms of expansion of services, geography or clients
We want to partner with like-minded firms
Our goal is to build a nationwide infrastructure solutions business. To get there, we are seeking partners with a strong market reputation, quality clients, exceptional talent and a growth mindset. Some of the criteria we look for include a PeopleFirst culture, quality clients, visible and recurring revenue growth.
Staff Retention
Our investment is based on the core premise that we want everyone to stay.
Business as Usual
Our aim is to build on the foundation that has made our partner firms successful. This means most things remain unchanged in terms of how they work, are structured and how they engage their clients.
New Opportunities
We believe our partnership will create opportunities as we accelerate organic growth and unlock potential for staff to grow their careers within the existing firm or within other members of the Trilon family.
Smart Collaboration
We encourage but do not force business collaboration across the Trilon family. We make decisions based on what is in the best interests of (i) our clients, (ii) our people, and (iii) our shareholders
Strategic Direction
Our highly collaborative culture and leadership style provides continued opportunity for our partners to influence our growth strategy and our investments in talent, technology and targeted M&A.
We support coordinated business transition
Our desire is to build an enduring business. We recognize this is also a desire of the founders, leaders and owners of our partners. Our investment model allows a more seamless transition of leadership and ownership from existing to emerging leaders across the Trilon family.
Leadership Succession
We invest in the leadership teams of our partners. We also support their leadership though planned transition leveraging both internal succession and investment in key talent.
Ownership Transition
Our investment model allows partners to facilitate a smooth transition of ownership for retiring shareholders while also allowing continuing shareholders to monetize their existing investment while retaining ownership in Trilon.
Employee Ownership
We recognize the value of employee ownership. Existing and future leaders are provided with on-going opportunities to own shares in the broader Trilon group.
We enjoy meeting potential new partners
Regardless of whether you are just interested in better understanding the Trilon approach or has a desire to more formally discuss the potential to join the Trilon group we would welcome the opportunity to speak with you.
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