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Ranger Partners

A Proven Track Record of Positively Transforming Businesses and Aggressively Growing Enterprise Value

We are highly-skilled industry experienced managers specializing in mergers and acquisitions, turnarounds, interim management, strategy development and execution, financial planning, business/operations improvement, organizational development, and capital raising.

We serve principally the world-wide aerospace, aviation, airline, MRO and airfield services industries, their supply chains and other highly engineered product industries. We also partner effectively with Private Equity and Venture Capital investors to pursue acquisitions, roll-ups and turnarounds.
Background Background

Ranger Partners, LLC is a business advisory, merger & acquisition integration, organizational development, deal making, and value enhancement company. Our company has extensive experience and a proven track record in aerospace, airline, MRO, airfield services, parts distribution, FBOs, rotorcraft, and aerospace specialty manufacturing.

Our Services Our Services

Dramatically turning companies around or simply reorganizing successfully to achieve superior business performance is something our partners have actually done. We understand how disciplines such as finance, marketing, IT, organizational development and operations fit together, so we can achieve optimal efficiency and superior results.

Our Team Our Team

Our expertise stems from our personal leadership experiences and aerospace industry knowledge. We bring the benefit of in-depth executive skills, knowledge and valuable industry contacts. Our leadership team provides creative, insightful, and cost effective solutions at a time of unprecedented change in worldwide aviation, airlines, and aerospace.



Ranger Partners, LLC is a business advisory, merger & acquisition integration, organizational development, deal making, and value enhancement company.


Ranger Partners, LLC has extensive experience in aerospace, airline, MRO, airfield services, parts distribution, FBOs, rotorcraft, and aerospace specialty manufacturing.

An Integrated Approach to Growth

Ranger Partners: Strategic, Business and Execution Planning Companies Transform Through Our Approaches

A Team with Experience and Vision

Ranger Partners: Strategic, Business and Execution Planning Leadership in the Aerospace Industry Many firms provide merger and acquisition consulting services. We bring more to the equation.


"When you need outside perspective and judgment on Due Diligence, Deal-Making, Capital Raising, Turnarounds, and other disciplines that cause many deal efforts to fail or fizzle, contact us."

Enhancing Value

Ranger Partners: Turnarounds and Business Performance Improvement Turnarounds & Business Performance Improvement Dramatically turning companies around or simply reorganizing successfully to achieve superior business performance is something our partners have actually done. We understand how disciplines such as finance, marketing, IT, organizational development and operations fit together.  Ranger Partners will work with you to:

Great Businesses Are Built With Great Planning

Ranger Partners: Strategic, Business and Execution Planning Strategic, Business & Execution Planning Industry consolidation trends make the current era of change and uncertainty even more perilous. Ranger Partners will support your management team to:

A Legacy is Bigger Than any Business

Ranger Partners: Succession Planning/Organization Assessment Succession Planning / Organization Assessment Organizational architecture and placing the right people in the right roles are some of the most important decisions a business faces. Ranger Partners will:

Quality is the Foundation for Success

Ranger Partners: Succession Planning/Organization Assessment Quality Systems Ranger Partners offers a full range of services leading to implementation of Quality Systems consistent with the requirements of ISO 9000 and AS 9100 standards. Whether your company needs to motivate and train your employees or implement a wholly new Quality System, Ranger Partners with its experience in the aerospace and aviation services industries can offer you a turnkey solution.

Great Minds Think Alike

Ranger Partners: Mergers, Acquisitions & Integration Mergers, Acquisitions & Integration Merged companies must meet their planned financial objectives; it is estimated that 80% of mergers fail to meet planned financial goals. Ranger Partners quickly coaches merging partners through the challenging integration steps so they can focus on achieving business results. Ranger Partners is highly experienced in both buy-side and sell-side Merger & Acquisition intermediary and facilitator functions, acting in an Advisory role.
Ranger Partners: Mergers, Acquisitions & Integration Firm
For Sellers to help prepare the company for sale, we will:


For Buyers who wish to retain us, we will assist with:


In all cases, retainers are netted out against fees, and we typically charge Lehman Formula plus expenses, except in special circumstances.

The Power of Relationships

Ranger Partners: Private Equity Private Equity Ranger Partners will leverage relationships in the Venture Capital, Institutional, and Private Equity communities to:


In these situations, Ranger Partners would typically take a carried interest in the project, and possibly a Board or managerial relationship as well. Typical success fees are earned by Ranger Partners upon actual funding, guided by market norms.

Our Team

Ranger Partners: Our Team Our leadership team provides creative, insightful, and cost effective solutions at a time of unprecedented change in worldwide aviation, airlines, and aerospace.
Our expertise stems from our personal leadership experiences and aerospace industry knowledge. We bring the benefit of in-depth executive skills, knowledge and valuable industry contacts.

Bill Jacobson : Ranger Partners Bill Jacobson

864.420.7176

Bill Jacobson is a general management, operations and aftermarket services executive experienced in Aerospace, Airline and engineered product industries. Formerly, Bill has held positions as President of Triumph Group Aerospace Systems, CEO of Allied Aerospace Industries, Inc., Senior VP Operations & Maintenance at Air New Zealand, VP Aftermarket Services at AlliedSignal Aerospace (Honeywell), President of AlliedSignal Aero Services-Germany, and VP Aftermarket Services at Textron Lycoming. Bill holds a BE-Metallurgical Engineering, Dartmouth College with over 40 Years in Industry, 22 years in C-level leadership positions and strong experience with business turnarounds, manufacturing operations, and MRO. He has also served as a Chairman and transformational coach for Private Equity-owned middle-market sized enterprises.
Phil Head : Ranger Partners Phil Head

864.420.4888

With 39 years' finance experience in aerospace and private equity, Phil Head has a broad array of financial and organizational skills. For over 25 years, Head rose to become VP-Finance for a major division of Lockheed (aerospace MRO services) and Martin-Marietta, followed by 9 years as VP-Finance for the aviation services sector of DynCorp International. Head recently served as Executive VP & Chief Financial Officer for a substantial Ranger Aerospace venture, and served as the CFO-level consultant for another. Head is an expert at Due Diligence, financial restructuring, financial & accounting systems improvements, and creating meticulous operational and financial metrics & reporting rhythms. He has worked with multiple private equity groups, banks, and Boards for the deal-making, diligence, and transformation of aerospace services firms. He is an undergraduate from UNC-Chapel Hill, and holds an MBA-Finance from Wake Forest University.
Adjuncts

Steve Townes : Ranger Partners Steve Townes
Steve Townes originally founded Ranger Partners Group in September 1988. He is not full-time with today's chapter of RPG, but acts as an occasional advisor to our team and sometimes to our clients, provided his services do not compete with his full-time activities at Ranger Aerospace. Mr. Townes, a well-known entrepreneur in the aerospace services arena, has been a C-Level leader in Private Equity-backed aviation services companies for over 25 years. He is President, CEO and a Director of Ranger Aerospace. He has held multiple CEO positions over the years in Ranger enterprises, notably: ASIG, one of the largest independent airfield services companies in the aviation industry; Keystone Helicopter, which Ranger grew to become one of the largest rotorcraft services operations in the US; and Ranger International, a global contractor in government technical services and airfield operations. In 2014 and 2016, he launched two new consolidation platforms, Ranger AeroSystems LLC (commercial airliner interiors MRO) and Ranger Airshop Holdings, Inc. (worldwide air cargo products and leasing services). Townes began his distinguished aerospace career at LTV Aerospace & Defense in Dallas TX, and became known as a "turnaround artist" as the officer level transition leader at Dee Howard Aerospace, Sabreliner, and Stevens Aviation. He is an engineering graduate of West Point, where he earned the coveted Eisenhower Award upon graduation. He also holds an MBA from Long Island University and completed the PMD program at Harvard Business School.
Ed Bolden : Ranger Partners Ed Bolden
With his past experience in directing several aviation companies, Ed Bolden brings significant skill sets in engineering, operations and finance to Ranger Partners. Additionally, Ed has deep experience in directing complex FAA aircraft certification projects and establishing both Repair Station and Parts Manufacturing Authority production systems. Ed is currently Vice President of Ranger Aerospace and serves on the Board of Directors of Ranger AeroSystems (commercial airliner interiors MRO). Previously he was the founder/CEO of both Premier Aviation and Heritage Aviation, President of Ranger Rotorcraft and President of Sextant Avionique, Inc (now Thales). He holds a BS from the School of Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, an MBA from Southern Methodist University, completed post-graduate work at the University of Texas-Arlington and has been a CPA (Texas/Retired) since 1976.