Bio

Irik is InCap’s Senior M&A Specialist. He provides the firm with unparalleled expertise in the buying, selling or combining privately owned Wealth Management and other financial service businesses. Over his career, Irik has been responsible for in excess of 200 M&A transactions. These were primarily private companies whose owners were seeking to undertake a transformative transaction. Irik is especially adept at understanding middle market companies’ owners’ objectives and developing an M&A strategy, and then negotiating, and most importantly consummating transactions to realize those goals. Prior to joining InCap, Irik was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Star Gas Partners, the nation’s largest home heating fuel company. He built that business from $50 million to over $1.25 Billion in revenue through both organic and inorganic growth strategies. He was also a Founder and Partner at VantaCore Partners L.P., where he acquired over $100 million of businesses. That company was sold to Natural Resource Partners L.P., a NYSE listed MLP. Irik graduated Cornell University, NYU Law School and Columbia University Business School with the highest academic honor, Beta Gamma Sigma. After completing his formal education, he was an Investment Banker at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. Irik has been married for 37 years and has three children.