Quiet Professionals acquired by McNally Capital
Gettyimages.com / Yuichiro Chino
By
Ross Wilkers
The private equity firm adds another founder-led company to its portfolio of companies in the government market, the newest of which focuses on helping intelligence operators work with data.
Quiet Professionals, a technology integrator focused on the special operations community, has been acquired by private equity firm McNally Capital in partnership with fellow investment firm Nio Advisors.
Founded in 2013 by Andrew “Andy” Wilson, Quiet Professionals describes its core services as ranging from operational mission support and cloud services to open source intelligence analysis. The Tampa-headquartered company’s program portfolio includes a $64.7 million contract awarded in 2023 for technical support to a Marine Corps intelligence system.
Wilson and other senior leadership team members are remaining in their roles post-close, the company said Wednesday. Other terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Through this partnership with McNally, Quiet Professionals will pursue organic growth initiatives such as developing new analytics and artificial intelligence tools. Acquisitions of complementary businesses are also a new priority for the company with the new backing.
“With McNally’s support, we’ll be able to invest more in our people, products, and R&D (research-and-development) and deliver even greater value to our customers and partners,” Wilson said in a release. “My team of quiet professionals is ready and excited to take the company to new heights, continuing our unwavering support to those who protect our nation."
One of Quiet Professionals’ flagship products is its Cerebra Grey Advanced Analytics Portal, which works to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in the analysis of publicly-available data from multiple sources.
The second, called Quantum Fusion, is designed to carry out machine translation and natural language processing functions as it integrates data from visible and more opaque sources like the dark web.
McNally is carrying out this acquisition through its third fund, McNally Capital Fund III, which continues the firm’s approach of backing lower middle-market businesses that are founder and family-owned.
McNally’s portfolio of companies in the government market also includes Altamira, FedData, Orbis Operations and Xcelerate Solutions. Nio also partnered with McNally on the transactions involving Orbis and Xcelerate, while ClearSky is the lead investor in Altamira with McNally as a minority owner.