Forest Wester

Managing Partner, Mid-Market at Trivest Partners

Forest Wester is a Partner at Trivest Partners, a private equity firm. Forest focuses on making investments in lower middle market growth companies across a variety of industries.

Previously, Forest worked as an Associate at PNC Equity Partners (d/b/a: Incline Equity Partners). In this role, they were responsible for making private equity investments of $10 million to $30 million in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and large minority financings of lower middle market growth companies.

Before joining PNC Equity Partners, Forest worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at Raymond James. In this role, they provided a broad range of investment banking services including debt and equity capital-raising services through public and private offerings, merger and acquisition advisory services, and corporate restructuring and reorganization.

Forest earned a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Florida.


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Trivest Partners

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Trivest Partners, with offices in Miami (HQ), Charlotte, Chicago, LA, Philadelphia, and Toronto, is exclusively focused on the support and growth of founder-led and family-owned businesses in the U.S. and Canada in both control and non-control transactions. Founded in 1981, the firm has completed more than 400 investments at a total value of more than $7 billion. Trivest is one of only 15 firms recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the top founder-friendly private equity firms in 2019, 2020, and 2021.