Team
Sagemeadow Capital Partners was founded in 2025 to be a trusted source of capital for founder and family-owned businesses seeking a strategic partner to drive growth, support succession planning, and preserve long-term value. While the firm itself is new, the Sagemeadow team brings deep experience in private equity and private credit—much of it earned while investing together. The firm’s Managing Partner, Jordan Sebold, worked alongside Michael Tait at Newstone Capital Partners LLC for 18 years, including five years with Scott Peckham before his departure to found and scale a lower middle-market building products company.
MANAGING PARTNER
Jordan B. Sebold
Jordan Sebold is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sagemeadow Capital Partners, where he oversees all aspects of the firm, including deal origination, structuring, execution, and portfolio monitoring. Mr. Sebold brings extensive experience and a proven track record of investing in middle-market private equity and private credit. He brings more than 21 years of dealmaking experience and has served on over a dozen boards of directors of private equity–owned portfolio companies. Prior to founding Sagemeadow, he spent 18 years at Newstone Capital Partners LLC, where he was a Managing Director, member of the Investment Committee, and shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the firm, which invested more than $3.6 billion across four funds. While at Newstone, he also led the origination, structuring, execution, and monitoring of middle-market private equity and private credit investments. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sebold was an investment banking associate at Lehman Brothers Inc. in Los Angeles. He began his career as a corporate attorney at Paul Weiss in New York, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, credit financings, and private equity fund formations. He received his B.A. from Emory University, his J.D. from Duke University, and his M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and he remains licensed to practice law in New York and California.
OPERATING PARTNER
Michael S. Tait
Michael Tait is an Operating Partner of Sagemeadow Capital Partners, where he provides operational support and strategic guidance across our portfolio, leveraging his experience and relationships to help grow and improve our companies. Mr. Tait brings extensive experience and a proven track record of investing in middle-market private equity and private credit. He brings more than 20 years of dealmaking experience and has sat on over a dozen board of directors for various private equity owned portfolio companies. Most recently, Mr. Tait has successfully deployed capital across various consumer and technology-enabled business services businesses. Prior to joining Sagemeadow, he spent 18 years at Newstone Capital Partners LLC, where he was a Managing Director, member of the Investment Committee, and shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the firm, which invested more than $3.6 billion across four funds. While at Newstone, he also led the origination, structuring, execution, and monitoring of middle-market private equity and private credit investments. Earlier in his career, Mr. Tait was an investment banking analyst at Jefferies & Company in Los Angeles, specializing in leveraged finance transactions and mergers and acquisitions advisory. He received his B.S. from Boston College.
SENIOR ADVISOR
Scott R. Peckham
Scott Peckham is a Senior Advisor to Sagemeadow Capital Partners, bringing more than 25 years of experience in private capital, investment banking, and business leadership. He is also a Managing Director of Elvisridge Capital, a private family office, where he leads the Investment Committee and oversees investment strategy, operations, and all aspects of the deal process, including origination, structuring, execution, and portfolio monitoring. Over the course of his career, Mr. Peckham has executed more than $12 billion in M&A and capital markets transactions, advising, financing, acquiring, and operating businesses across a range of industries. Prior to joining Elvisridge, he gained operating experience as the co-founder of a nationwide building products business and as CEO of a private equity–backed manufacturing company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Peckham was a Vice President at Newstone Capital Partners LLC, where he originated, structured, executed, and monitored middle-market private equity and private credit investments. He began his career in investment banking with Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers Inc. Mr. Peckham received his B.A. from the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University.