Our Firm
Established in 1993, Aequitas Capital Management is an alternative investment firm providing private equity and commercial finance products to the middle market, healthcare and energy sectors. Our value proposition for our clients is in our hands-on approach to advising, structuring and investing.

We are committed to growing our distinctive Culture and holding to our core values which always place our client's interests first. These values are reflected in our Business Principles, which emphasize integrity, commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork.

Mission
Aequitas Capital Management is a sustainable, growth oriented investment management firm that serves and values our customers in distinctive and socially responsible ways, and which reflects the practical application of faith-based values throughout our organization.

Vision
Aequitas Capital Management's vision is to make a positive impact in this world by serving a greater purpose than just making money - by deploying funds in socially responsible markets, by being good stewards in every resource in our care and giving back to the communities in which we live.

Our Culture
We believe that Aequitas Capital has been blessed with a business model that provides a platform for entrepreneurial opportunity. With this opportunity comes a duty to give back to our community, to our fellow man, and to help others. We have an incredible fiduciary responsibility to our clients, investors and employees. To meet this fiduciary responsibility requires integrity, honesty, disclosure, follow-through, and the willingness to treat our client's capital and affairs as we treat our own. Under our business model we mentor, coach, and lead our clients and employees. We are active advisors, not advice givers. When in doubt, we share more - not less - with clients, employees and community. We believe that the success of our business, our community and our nation is based on healthy relationships in the family.

We operate our business prudently, strive to keep our overhead low and provide opportunity to our employees through compensation-based programs that provide rewards commensurate with effort and success. We believe that the success and growth of Aequitas is best achieved by keeping the fixed overhead risk low and by providing our employees the ability to realize the benefits of their efforts.

1. We are opportunity seekers, not entitlement takers. We create and earn, and cannot afford to sit and inherit.
2. We are value driven and performance oriented.
3. We train and run both the sprint and the marathon. We rest, have fun, never quit and always seek to learn.
4. We plan for succession and develop our future leaders.
5. The truth of what we say is told by what we do.
6. As we provide extraordinary service, we bring added value to the customer that cannot be duplicated.
7. When we are wrong or fail, we admit it. Truth cannot be compromised.
8. We promote others, not ourselves.
9. We must be willing to serve. We should never ask anyone to do something that we would not be willing to do ourselves.
10. To err is ok, as long as we learn and adjust.
11. We have all been created in God's image and the results of our leadership will be measured beyond the workplace. The story will be told in the changed lives of people.

Guiding Objectives For What We Do
To honor our Creator in all we do
To help people develop and provide opportunity
To be highly regarded and trusted advisors
To pursue excellence and innovation
To grow profitably while giving back to employees and community

To honor our Creator in all we do
We live and work in a diverse and pluralistic society and we never allow religion or a lack thereof to become a basis for exclusion or how we treat each other professionally or personally. At the same time, we believe that the work environment need not be emasculated to a neutrality of no faith. Our faith is personal to each of us and not a corporate belief. We believe that God has invested each one of us with dignity, worth, potential and the freedom to choose. We demonstrate our belief in the dignity and worth of every person by our actions with those with whom we work and those with whom we serve. We believe that the teachings of God provide a moral compass as we determine the right way to run our business and our interactions with employees, customers and our families. Our intent is to serve God, not money, and to focus on significance, not just financial success.

To help people develop and provide opportunity
The success of our business lies in the training and development of people. We cannot deliver quality service to the customer without motivated and trained people. We believe that the modern-day firm must be a learning organization. Learning and innovation go hand in hand. It is the responsibility of each of us to be a teacher and a student, and to continue to learn and build upon our skills. Through our willingness to learn and develop will come opportunity.

We aspire to be a great place to work: a progressive, dynamic and continuously improving company that embraces world-class practices in quality, timing, involvement and simplicity.

To be highly regarded and trusted advisors
We seek to be recognized as highly regarded and trusted advisors. This is demonstrated through the results of the success of our clients, the quality of our advice and services, and by the way we operate our firm. We are not afraid of the truth and we tell the truth to our clients. We strive continuously to build upon our reputation as well as to nourish and protect it.

We will conduct ourselves with dignity, adhering to the highest ethical and moral standards.

We build and maintain solid relationships of respect among ourselves, our customers, and our suppliers, encouraging the growth and well-being of each employee.

To pursue excellence and innovation
We pursue excellence in all of our activities and demonstrate it through the quality of our service and advice, our willingness to learn and build upon our skills, and the development of our personnel. We demand results and do not tolerate mediocrity and incompetence. We recognize that we all make mistakes, but from those mistakes we learn and improve our value to the firm and our clients.

To grow profitably while giving back to employees and community
We believe that profit is a legitimate measurement of the value of our efforts. It is an essential source of capital. It is a requirement for survival of the individual, the family unit, and any organization. Profit is the excess of revenues over expenses. There can be no revenue without customers. Each of us has a responsibility to seek out, develop, and nurture profitable customer relationships, and expand those relationships. Revenues are not realized until our services are sold; we are all responsible for selling our services.

We recognize that profitable growth is a result of our employee efforts and strong communities, and as such, we must share the results of our success with our employees and our community.

We want to serve others, helping meet human needs in the community and beyond. When combined with our personal giving, we contribute more than 10% of our earnings for those opportunities.