How we work
Berkshire Partners was founded in the early 1980s by five individuals who wanted to create a private equity firm based on successful relationships, hard work, analysis, and the collaborative participation of all individuals. These goals and values continue to shape the way Berkshire works and thinks.
Our mission as private equity investors:
- Produce investment returns that consistently rank us in the top quartile of comparable private investment firms.
- Support the management teams of our portfolio companies with the resources needed to realize the full potential of their businesses.
- Strive for honesty and fairness and uphold the highest ethical standards.
- Make decisions based upon analytical rigor, open debate and logic-based judgments.
- Maintain the firm's culture of teamwork, inclusiveness and consensus decision making.
- Support the development of our staff and encourage all of our colleagues to seek balance in life through their commitments to family, community service and outside interests.
Our mission statement represents the philosophy and values that guide us - as a company and as individuals. We believe that these principles have helped attract and retain managers of our portfolio companies and members of the Berkshire staff.