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 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 in 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.
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Talent
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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.
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Technology
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We see a significant opportunity to leverage technology to improve project delivery and project outcomes. Trilon will support our leadership to identify, pilot, and scale technology to develop our core competency and competitive advantage.
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Targeted M&A
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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.
Our investment strategy is somewhat unique in that we 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.
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Culture and Values
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Very important that any potential partner shares our People-First approach, client-centric delivery model, and culture of integrity, quality, collaboration, and passion.
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Successful Business
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Preference for attracting strong businesses with sound financial performance, quality leadership, and scalable systems. We’re looking for partners to build around.
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Visible & Recurring Revenue
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Focus on repeat business, strong customer relationships, diversity of projects/programs, and visible backlog.
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Market Concentration
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Majority of revenue generated in one or more of our target markets of Transportation, Water, Utilities, Environment or Community Infrastructure, preferably within defined geographic regions.
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Digital and Innovation
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Desire or proven ability to leverage digital tools and innovation to create competitive advantage in terms of cost, quality, and or schedule.
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Growth Mindset
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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:
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Staff Retention
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Our investment is based on the core premise that we want everyone to stay.
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Business as Usual
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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, how they are structured, and how they engage their clients.
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New Opportunities
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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.
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Smart Collaboration
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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.
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Strategic Direction
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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.
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Leadership Succession
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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.
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Ownership Transition
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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.
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Employee Ownership
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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 have a desire to more formally discuss joining the Trilon group, we would welcome the opportunity to speak with you.
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