Brooke has over twenty-five (25) years experience in finance, turnaround management, direct private equity investing, owning, and operating lower middle market businesses.
Currently, Brooke is a principal of Delta Partners LLC, an Annapolis, Maryland based Private Equity Fund. Delta Partners focuses on buyouts of lower middle market companies operating in basic manufacturing industries that require operational turnarounds and/or financial restructuring.
Previously, Brooke was a co-founder of D & B Industrial Group, a Georgetown, Delaware based Industrial Manufacturing Company. At D & B, Brooke was responsible for manufacturing operations, finance and administrative management as well as arranging all bank financings.
Along with his business partner and brother, Doug S. Kinney, Brooke has been directly involved with diligence, structuring of and writing more than twenty (20) letters of interest since 1998. D & B completed six (6) acquisitions between the years 1999 and 2008 while successfully turning around each company.
Prior to co-founding D & B Industrial Group, Brooke worked for WCB, Inc. and M-T, Inc. where he spent six (6) years managing plant and administrative operations of both small manufacturing companies.
Brooke sits on the Board of ANR Partners, Inc., FBK Partners, Inc., TPI Partners, Inc., Rowe Industries, Inc., and is a past board member of The Kent School of Chestertown, Md. He has a BA degree from Roanoke College.