Date
02.23.21
One Equity Partners Portfolio Company, Computer Design & Integration, Completes Acquisition of Kintyre Solutions
Fourth Add-On Acquisition Strengthens CDI’s Security and Public Cloud Capabilities
New York – One Equity Partners (“OEP”), a middle market private equity firm, today announced that its portfolio company Computer Design & Integration LLC (“CDI”) , a market-leading IT solutions provider, has completed the acquisition of Kintyre Solutions, Inc. (“Kintyre” or “the Company”), a system integrator with practices focused on cloud native application development, observability and investigation platforms, cloud optimization, and various security engineering technologies. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2015, Kintyre provides product development, advanced configuration management, integration, data analytics, security engineering and other high value managed services. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the Company offers full end-to-end enterprise class cloud native development and optimization to clients.
“Kintyre’s services offering is highly complementary to CDI’s offering and strengthens its portfolio of cloud development and security engineering capabilities,” said Chip Schorr, Senior Managing Director at One Equity Partners. “This acquisition reflects OEP’s deep expertise in identifying strategic acquisitions that build market share and create transformational growth opportunities for our portfolio companies.”
“Adding Kintyre’s expertise in Splunk, cloud optimization, and DevSecOps to our portfolio helps us meet the ever-growing demands of our customers,” said Vince Collado, President, Digital Transformation Strategy, CDI. “This is another incremental step in pursuing our growth objectives and accelerating our digital evolution so we can deliver greater value to our clients.”
The transaction is CDI’s fourth add-on deal as a portfolio company of OEP and follows its acquisition of High Availability, Inc., a Philadelphia-based IT solutions provider in January. CDI acquired P5 Solutions, Inc., a Reston, Va.-based ServiceNow Elite Partner, in September 2020 and Plan B Technologies, Inc., an Annapolis, Md.-based IT solutions and professional services provider, in July 2020.
“Becoming a CDI Company was the next right step for Kintyre, and we’re excited to have found a partner that values our mission and our position in the industry,” added Brian Kennedy, President and Founder, Kintyre. “We look forward to demonstrating our application modernization expertise, and integrating our combined DevOps, security and hybrid cloud capabilities to continue developing the world class digital foundation that customers have come to expect.”
“We’re excited for CDI to leverage Kintyre’s comprehensive IT infrastructure and security expertise to solidify CDI’s position as a leading provider of traditional IT, public, private and hybrid cloud solutions and broaden its suite of high value services,” said Charlie Cole, Principal at One Equity Partners.
About One Equity Partners:
One Equity Partners (“OEP”) is a middle market private equity firm focused on the industrial, healthcare, and technology sectors in North America and Europe. The firm builds market-leading companies by identifying and executing transformative business combinations. OEP is a trusted partner with a differentiated investment process, a broad and senior team, and an established track record generating long-term value for its partners. Since 2001, the firm has completed more than 300 transactions worldwide. OEP, founded in 2001, spun out of JP Morgan in 2015. The firm has offices in New York, Chicago, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. For more information, please visit www.oneequity.com.
About Computer Design & Integration LLC (CDI LLC):
CDI LLC was founded in 1995, with corporate headquarters in New York City, and office locations in Teterboro, N.J., Atlanta, Annapolis, Philadelphia, Boston, Virginia, Colorado and Minnesota. The firm has been recognized as one of the top solution providers in the world, offering clients and businesses of all sizes the most up-to-date hybrid IT technology solutions. CDI continually focuses on achieving client satisfaction by developing and implementing digital solutions that enhance day-to-day workflow processes, and combines the required experience, exceptional talent, quality assurance and stability needed to solve today’s complex business challenges. For more information, visit cdillc.com or call 1-877-216-0133. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
About Kintyre:
Kintyre is a system integrator with practices focused on observability and investigation platforms, cloud computing optimization, and security engineering. Clients accelerate value realized from a variety of IT investments utilizing our proven, refined, and still flexible consulting and managed service engagement offerings. Kintyre’s staff possess deep expertise in system engineering, advanced automation and orchestration techniques for configuration management, and modern full-stack application development, supported by notable certifications from our longstanding partnerships with industry leaders including Splunk, Amazon Web Services, and many DevOps and security ISVs. Visit www.kintyre.co for more information.