Trivergance Team

Lowell has over 20 years of experience in leveraged buyouts and venture investing, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and real estate finance. He applies an entrepreneurial investment approach with a proven ability to identify industry trends and utilizes his expertise across a range of industries, capital types and security structures. He has extensive relationships with premiere private equity firms, as well as a number of direct sources of institutional capital with which he has completed investments as both a lead and co-investor alongside these firms. Mr. Kraff has been a principal or merchant banker in over 30 transactions representing over $3.6 billion in transaction value. Lowell is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Trivergance. Lowell is primarily responsible for leading the Trivergance team in sourcing, structuring and executing buyouts, leveraged recapitalizations and growth equity investments. Lowell serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Diamond Resorts International and a Founding Principal in Oursurance and a Founding Principal in AP Capital Holdings. Prior to. founding Trivergance, Mr. Kraff was the President of Polaris Acquisition Corp. Mr. Kraff was the co-founder of Connecting Capital & Partners, a merchant bank focused on buyout and growth capital co-investments and buy-side advisory services. Earlier in his career, he was a co-founder of Vision Capital Partners, which was a merchant banking partnership focused on early stage venture capital and private equity investments. Lowell is a member of the University of Pennsylvania's Major Gift Committee and a trustee and member of the endowment fund of the Anshe Emet Conservative Synagogue in Chicago He received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1994 and a B.S. in economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 1983.