WHERE YOUR LEGACY GOES TO GROW
Not unlike your industrial clients, you've spent a lifetime building a highly-specialized business that has had—and will continue to have—a long-lasting impact on both your customers and your employees. Your success is inextricably connected to theirs, so when it's time to move on—you're not looking for just any buyer. You're looking for a partner who will honor the promises you've made.
THE BEST PERMANENT HOME
Long live legacy
Highly-specialized ERP software companies like yours are often unsung market leaders. They have a large and loyal customer base supported by tenured and dedicated employees. And they have an artfully crafted software solution that is fueling communities, economies, and an entire ecosystem of stakeholders. This is your legacy, and our vision is simply to grow it.
Mirador was founded to be the best permanent home for specialized ERP software companies at every stage of growth. We are a partner to founders and owners who wish to safeguard their legacy by applying a long-view, never-sell approach to growth and value creation.
A TRUSTED PARTNER
Solving long-term problems with long-term solutions
The ownership timeline of investors should never be shorter than the ownership timeline of customers. Private equity technology investors hold on to a software company for 4.5 years on average before selling it, while customers hold on to their ERP system for an average of 10+ years. The math just doesn't work.
Fund-based investors will apply a short-term lens to decision-making to maximize their returns at the expense of meaningful value creation—it is their fiduciary duty to do so. In contrast, Mirador applies a permanent capital model designed to keep customers for life, by ensuring your product can—and will—always remain the most effective and economic ERP solution for them.
A PROVEN TRACK RECORD
Founded in real operating experience
The Mirador team has been acquiring and operating ERP software companies for more than a dozen years, executing a proven model that has seen unmatched success in nearly 20 geographies and spanning over a dozen languages and cultures.
No other owner will understand your operations, product, and market better. With Mirador, you gain a partner with a masterful playbook and realistic goals. We look to combine our rich industry experience with the deep customer and product knowledge of your team to develop a unique strategy that will help your business become the best version of itself.
MEET OUR TEAM
Family-owned investing in generational businesses
Corbin Tognoni
CEO
Corbin has over a decade of experience investing in and operating ERP software businesses, having raised over $450 million of capital throughout his career across more than 20 financial transactions. Previously, Corbin was CFO of Forterro, a global ERP software group ...
Richard Furby
COO
Richard has 25+ years of technology leadership, sales and consulting experience, working with some of the world’s leading companies including Siemens, Standard Life, AIG, Virgin Media, Telefonica, Starbucks and Pepsi. Previously, Richard held multiple executive roles at Forterro ...
Jeff Tognoni
Chairman
Jeff was a pioneer in developing build-and-buy investment strategies for the ERP software space, acting as founder and CEO of both Consona and Forterro. At each one, Jeff evolved a single, midmarket ERP company into a multi-product international group ...
Melissa Stahley
CMO
Melissa has 20+ years of experience in the ERP / application software space, having overseen teams responsible for demand generation, corporate communications, business development, product marketing, and HR at Forterro, and before that Consona. Throughout her career ...
Steve Bailey
Technology Advisor & Board Member
Steve has over 20 years of experience as a Chief Technology Officer, including acquisition due diligence, integration of acquired firms, and continuous improvement of both R&D operations and product architectures in the US, Europe, India, and Morocco. Earlier in his career ...
Brian Branecky
Director, Strategic Finance & Corporate Development
Brian has nearly a decade of experience in the application software space, previously handing FP&A for an international multi-product software group, as well as strategic modeling for the company's M&A engine ...
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TAKING THE LONG VIEW
Former Managing Director, after owning and operating an ERP software company for 25 years
“To be presented with a proposition that would result in the long-term sustainability of [our company] that both protects the investment of our loyal customers whilst also providing our dedicated and talented team of IT professionals with the security from an owner with a ‘buy to keep’ business approach was simply too compelling to be ignored.”