Vince Smith Bio

Vince Smith is a Partner at Lometa Capital Partners. He is responsible for overseeing all facets of the firm’s investment activities and sits on the Investment Committee. Prior to joining Lometa, Vince was a Principal and founding team member of Sky Island Capital, a Dallas-based private equity firm focused on control investments in North American manufacturing companies with more than $250 million under management. While at Sky Island, Vince led the acquisitions of Aluma-Fold-Pacific, Polished Metals Limited, and Pride Metal Polishing, in addition to his work on Sky Island’s majority buyout of Material Sciences Corporation. Prior to joining Sky Island, Vince worked at Insight Equity, an operationally intensive middle market private equity firm with approximately $1.4 billion under management. Before Insight, Vince started his career as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Industrials group of Lazard. Vince received his Master of Accountancy degree from the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri. He also graduated magna cum laude from the University of Missouri with a BS in Business Management with an emphasis in Accountancy and a BA in Economics. Additionally, Vince is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Missouri.