Lucinda Redd Chrislip was born into a cattle ranching family and grew up in the high desert of Southeastern Utah. Her early work experience included cattle rustling and “tubular aquatics engineering” (moving irrigation pipe). Lucinda earned a bachelor's degree in Dance from Brigham Young University and served a Spanish-speaking mission in Oakland, California. After working for Zion’s Bank and Target Corporation, she completed a master’s degree in Family and Consumer Sciences Education from the University of Minnesota and taught merchandising classes at the University of Wisconsin--Stout. She moved to Boston on a whim in 2014 and serendipitously landed in a sweet spot of creativity and entrepreneurialism, becoming a business owner in 2019. Her business, Derby Farm Flowers and Gardens, has locations in Arlington and Newton.

Managing Partner: Responsible for driving overall vision and direction at the corporate and portfolio level, while driving transactions and capital raising activities.

• Developed parameters for an investment thesis to guide through the acquisition process.

• Drive deal-flow and deal screening to identify targets to acquire through M&A activities.

• Perform various tasks such as financial and buyout modeling, valuation, calls with brokers and sellers, issuing IOI’s and LOI’s, due diligence, etc.

• Conduct financial, qualitative, and market due diligence and analysis.

• Raise capital from institutional investors for debt and equity for the buyouts.

• Develop leaders through rigorous coaching and training with particular focus on visioneering the company through a financial and leadership scorecard.

• Build customized financial models for each portfolio company to analyze for IRR’s, MOIC and other metrics along with increased efficiency, standardization, and insights into the full financial picture of the company.

• Strategize with management and investors to help maximize valuation and exit through organic and acquisition growth.

• Facilitate and drive the budgeting process to ensure margin control and management accountability is achieved.

• Drive the growth through acquisition strategy.