Quarterline & Rock is a South Bend–based investment and advisory firm that organizes capital for a thriving region.
Every year, more of the region’s companies reach an ownership transition — a retirement, a sale, a succession. When they are bought by someone outside the region, ownership, profits, and decisions leave with them.
Source: Indiana Business Research Center, Indiana’s “Silver Tsunami”: Revenue at Stake from Aging Businessowners (prepared for the Indiana Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, March 2026).
We buy profitable, established businesses and hold and grow them for the long term. They stay owned and operated here.
Thinking about what comes next? We put together a guide to work through it. See it here.
20+ years in private equity, executive search, and Fortune 500 operations. Board Chair, South Bend–Elkhart Regional Partnership. Vanderbilt and London School of Economics graduate.
LinkedIn15+ years in investment and operational strategy. Co-founder of INVANTI, a venture capital studio and investment firm. Three-time Notre Dame graduate.
LinkedIn15+ years in place-based economic development and institutional capital deployment. Led the $170M LIFT Initiative at the University of Notre Dame. M.Phil, Cambridge; double Domer.
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