Riley Looser

Riley is the Principal and Head of Resource Team at Shore Capital Partners, a leading microcap private equity fund. Riley has 12+ years of experience in supporting executive leaders with accounting and finance operations in a high-velocity M&A environment across a variety of industries.

 

Riley joined Shore in September of 2020 as a Director on the Shore Resource Team. The Shore Resource Team is a subset of the Portfolio Performance Group within the operations arm of Shore. The team partners with portfolio company executives to support accounting, finance, and operations infrastructure-building initiatives through implementing the “Shore Playbook” during the first 100 days of the partnership.

 

Today, Riley leads the team of 20+ SRT professionals to implement scalable, repeatable and value accretive processes to improve portfolio company operations to best prepare them for future growth. Specifically, her and the team focus on financial reporting effectiveness, KPI and metric management, liquidity modeling, integration strategy, sell-side readiness assessments and other accounting advisory needs across the portfolio. Riley and the team also lead Shore’s CFO cohort program geared toward providing all of Shore’s portfolio company finance leaders an opportunity for best practice and knowledge sharing, to enable them to use their role in finance as a value generator.

 

Prior to joining shore, Riley was an experienced senior manager at PwC in Chicago within the Deals platform. Riley grew up in upstate New York and attended St Bonaventure University in the greater Buffalo area. She currently holds an M.B.A. from the St. Bonaventure school of business as well as a B.S. in both Accounting and Finance.