NASHVILLE, OCTOBER 4, 2023 – Meritus Gas Partners is pleased to announce that Logan Evans joined our team today as Digital Marketing Manager. Logan was previously employed at Volunteer Welding Supply in Nashville. Mr. Evan’s background includes a role as the Comptroller and Data Scientist at Ribbow Media Group, blending marketing expertise with data and financial analysis to optimize digital marketing campaigns for the film and television industry. He’s a graduate of the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies and resides in Franklin, TN with his wife Kristen and two daughters, Kennedy and Hadley.
“This is the first time we’ve promoted someone from one of our operating companies into a role in the holding company,” said Allen Jezouit, Meritus’ VP of Product Management and Digital Marketing. “Logan’s extensive marketing background coupled with his hands-on experience working in our business made him the clear choice over several outstanding external candidates.”
Founded in December 2020, AEA Investors formed Meritus to assemble a national federation of high-quality independent distributors of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and welding and safety supplies, located in diverse geographies and serving growing end-markets. Meritus will partner with exceptional businesses and management teams, allow them to remain independent and entrepreneurial, and support them to accelerate growth, improve business quality and enhance value. Owners are invited to invest meaningful equity into the Meritus holding company to allow them to share in the success of the overall platform. Visit us online at MeritusGas.com.
AEA Investors LP was founded in 1968 by the Rockefeller, Mellon and Harriman family interests and S.G. Warburg & Co. as a private investment vehicle for a select group of industrial family offices with substantial assets. AEA has an extraordinary global network built over many years which includes leading industrial families, business executives and leaders; many of whom invest with AEA as active individual investors and/or join its portfolio company boards or act in other advisory roles. Today, AEA’s approximately 100 investment professionals operate globally with offices in New York, Stamford, San Francisco, London, Munich and Shanghai. The firm manages funds that have over $14 billion of invested and committed capital including the leveraged buyouts of middle market companies and small business companies, growth capital and mezzanine and senior debt investments.