CIC Partners is a Dallas-based middle-market private equity firm. Over the past 25 years, CIC Partners has successfully partnered with outstanding operators in more than 40 companies spanning 14 industries, with combines revenues of more that $2.5 billion. The capital we invest is personal, not institutional, and that of a select group of operators and investors.
CIC Partners, LP is the new name of and successor to Cardinal Investment Company's Private Equity Group. We have expanded our partnership to include Michael S. Rawlings, former CEO of PepsiCo and current Chairman of DreamWorks Animation, Inc., and Jim Smith, current Chairman and former CEO of First Health and Chairman of Gartner Group, as Advisory Partners.
They join existing General Partners Marshall Payne and Drew Johnson, who previously led CIC's private equity investing.