Justin is the Founder and Managing Partner of one of the nation’s best performing private equity firms, Shore Capital Partners (“Shore”). Since the firm’s inception in 2009, Justin and the team have grown Shore from 4 to 209 team members managing over $17 billion in Regulatory Assets Under Management across more than 84 platforms representing 1,300+ acquired companies.
Shore has helped lower middle market companies grow bigger, stronger, and faster through thoughtful investments in people, process, and systems. Shore’s portfolio companies now span across over 2,000 locations representing more than 40,000 employees. Shore has been recognized each of the last six years as one of Inc. Magazine’s Top Founder-Friendly Private Equity Firms. Shore is also the most active private equity firm in the world by deal volume according to PitchBook while continuing to achieve return profiles that rank Shore among the top 1% of private equity firms.
Outside of the office, Mr. Ishbia is a member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, the Board of Directors Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. He serves as an alternate governor of the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association, the Phoenix Mercury of the Women’s National Basketball Association and Major League Soccer’s Nashville SC. He also is a Minority Owner of the Chicago White Sox.
Justin received his Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University Law School, a Certificate of Law and Business from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and a B.A. in Accounting from Michigan State University. He lives in Chicago with his wife Kristen, four children and two yellow labs.
