Craig Milius
Growth Equity & Buyouts for Technology & Business Services
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2017 - Current
Brentwood Associates is a private equity investment firm with a 30+ year history of investing in middle-market growth-oriented consumer and technology-enabled business services companies. Since 1984, Brentwood’s dedicated private equity team has invested in over 50 portfolio companies with an aggregate transaction value of over $6 billion. Brentwood is a value-added partner for entrepreneurs and senior management teams building world-class companies.
Brentwood Associates is a consumer-focused private equity investment firm.
Member, Board of Directors
2021
SMG is a leading experience management (XM) provider, accelerating value by changing how brands act on customer + employee insights. With a rich 30-year history rooted in The Service Profit Chain, SMG is the industry’s only software with a service (SwaS) provider—uniquely pairing an enterprise platform with professional services to help brands generate new revenue, grow existing revenue, reduce churn + detractors, and drive operational efficiencies.
Member, Board of Directors
2020
Combining powerful digital patient care tools with the highest quality education, MedBridge is committed to making healthcare better by empowering providers. Organizations across the care continuum use MedBridge to provide an enriched, digitally enabled experience that engages patients while streamlining and simplifying care. Designed with over a decade of insight from more than 300,000 clinicians and 25 million patients, MedBridge has helped thousands of organizations realize better patient outcomes.
Member, Board of Directors
2020 - 2024
Founded in 2003, Parchment is a widely adopted credential service, allowing learners, academic institutions, and employers to request, verify, and share credentials in simple and secure ways. Acquired by Instructure, listing "INST" for $835 million.
Member, Board of Directors
2018 - 2024
Founded in 1997, Credentials Solutions specializes in identifying labor-intensive administrative processes at postsecondary institutions and replacing them with simplified, automated software solutions at a lower cost to the institutions. Acquired Parchment, re-branded as Parchment
Managing Partner
2012 - 2016
Sampa Partners is a private equity firm focused exclusively in the tech-enabled services, information services and software sectors with an emphasis on lower middle market businesses with revenues typically between $5 million and $40 million. Our strategy is simple. We make significant equity investments in growth businesses to support outstanding management teams in their pursuit of shareholder value creation through a combination of operational improvements, internal growth initiatives and strategic acquisitions.
Vice President / Member, Board of Directors
2007 - 2013
Austin Trustees of Austin (ATA) provides low-cost wellness, spay/neuter, and emergency medical services to pets whose owners are economically disadvantaged. Since June 2002, the ATA Wellness Clinic for Animals has provided wellness services, vaccinations, and emergency surgeries for over 85,000 dogs and cats.
Member, Board of Directors
2007 - 2011
Asset International, Inc is a leading publisher and information provider to global pension funds, asset managers, financial advisers, banking service providers, and other financial institutions. Acquired by Genstar Capital.
Strategic Insight (SI) provides critical and proprietary data, business intelligence, research and marketing services.
Member, Board of Directors
2004 - 2011
ReTrans, Inc., is a multimodal, full-service transportation and logistics management company. For everything from truckload to intermodal, from LTL to international shipping, through its relationships with literally thousands of proven carriers, ReTrans offers customers comprehensive, yet customized, solutions for transporting goods. Acquired by Tailwind Capital.
Member, Board Observer
2001 - 2011
Newgistics combines industry-leading processes and technology, personalized service, and the unrivaled convenience of the USPS to offer the most comprehensive set of delivery and returns services available to residential shippers. Acquired by Littlejohn & Co.