Who We Are
our story
Every business has a story. Here is ours.
The inspiration for PierCap Partners started with conversations between our co-founders, Ashish Jariwala and Zaheer Dhruv, who first connected in 2005. Their diverse personal and professional experiences converged upon many common themes and a shared passion for helping businesses create value.
As a young entrepreneur, Ashish experienced first-hand the challenges and opportunities that a small business faces from all sides of the table – as an operator, acquirer and seller. After a challenging start, a leveraged acquisition and many years of continued investment in the business, he executed a successful, but laborious, sale process. While the result was financially rewarding, he will never forget the feelings of anxiety and self-doubt that went along with the process, of navigating through multiple negotiations, legal jargons, and endless buyer inquiries without having any experienced guidance to ensure he was making the right decisions. The personal and professional lessons learned from this experience fueled his passion for investment banking and guiding similar businesses through a smooth financial transition.
For Zaheer, it was his father’s journey in starting and running a cardiac surgery center that had an early and lasting impact. Growing up, he was part of ongoing conversations about starting up the business, financing its operations, and managing its initial success, followed by the challenges tied to continued growth during his father’s entrepreneurial effort. Zaheer learned first-hand that making the right commercial choices would signal ultimate success or failure. Since then, Zaheer made it a personal goal to pursue roles that would shape business outcomes, in small and large corporate environments–all in an effort to learn and harness commercial leadership skills. In his journey, Zaheer has also enjoyed opportunities to lead large teams and helping people become better leaders as a certified personal leadership coach.
Over the years, Ashish and Zaheer spent countless hours discussing success stories and growth opportunities, and bonded over the mutual idea of better ways to help businesses achieve value. More than a decade later, they decided to start the next phase of their careers.
PierCap Partners reflects their passion of empowering entrepreneurs to maximize value through mergers and acquisitions, providing the support owners need to effectively and confidently take their business to the next level.