Experienced Chief Financial Officer Expands Capabilities

Angeles Equity Partners, LLC (“Angeles”), a private investment firm focused on value creation through operational transformation, today announced Ursula Ster has been named as an operating partner, finance at Angeles Operations Group. Ster joins the firm with more than 20 years of transaction advisory and senior finance roles across a broad spectrum of industrial businesses.

Angeles is a specialist lower middle-market private equity investment firm with a consistent approach that seeks to transform underperforming industrial businesses. As an operating partner, finance in Angeles’ affiliated operations group, Ster is responsible for the evaluation and due diligence of new investment opportunities, developing and executing value creation plans, and providing finance leadership and oversight across Angeles portfolio companies.

“Ursula is an exceptionally talented finance professional that will complement and extend the capabilities of the Angeles Operations Group,” said Tim Meyer and Jordan Katz, co-founders and managing partners of Angeles Equity Partners. “Her experience operating in fast-paced and complex industrial environments, robust finance skill set, and extensive transaction services background will bolster our ability to create value across a broad range of situations and industrial end markets.”

Prior to joining Angeles Operations Group, Ster was the chief financial officer of Divergent Technologies. Before joining Divergent, Ster was a senior finance leader at Space Exploration Technologies (“SpaceX”), after spending over 10 years in the transaction advisory services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”). Ster earned an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and a B.A. in Business Economics with a minor in Accounting from the University of California, Los Angeles.

“I look forward to partnering with such a talented group of private equity professionals and portfolio leadership teams to drive strategic financial initiatives that can deliver exceptional operational and financial results,” Ster added.

About Angeles Equity Partners, LLC

Angeles Equity Partners, LLC is a specialist lower middle-market private equity investment firm with a consistent approach that seeks to transform underperforming industrial businesses. The Angeles skill set drives the firm’s investment philosophy and, in its view, can help businesses reach their full potential. Learn more online at www.angelesequity.com.

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