Coppice Capital partners with exceptional management teams to acquire, transform, and grow businesses with lasting competitive advantage.
Mid-Market
Acquisitions &
Growth Equity
Coppice Capital is a private equity firm based in Eagle Mountain, UT, focused on acquiring and growing businesses with durable competitive moats. We bring patient, long-term capital alongside hands-on operational expertise to every investment.
Our name reflects our philosophy — a coppice is a grove that grows stronger with each harvest cycle. We believe businesses, like forests, flourish when cultivated with intention, patience, and deep knowledge of the terrain.
"We invest in businesses we'd want to own forever — and then build them as if we will."
We focus on middle-market opportunities where our operational experience, sector knowledge, and capital structure create differentiated returns. Our thesis is built around businesses with strong unit economics, defensible market positions, and capable leadership teams.
Coppice Capital holds active positions across real estate, manufacturing, software, precious metals, and marine — alongside a track record of notable strategic exits.
Todd began his career at Ernst & Young in Silicon Valley, where he advised some of the world's most influential technology and biotech companies including Salesforce, Google, Sun Microsystems, Intel, HP, Oracle, and CV Therapeutics. He subsequently served as Controller and CFO for a range of technology companies across California and Utah, building deep expertise in corporate finance, operations, and capital strategy.
Todd went on to found and scale multiple companies in the technology and retail sectors. As principal shareholder and CEO of Marine Venture Group, he led the business to a $120M annual run rate before executing a strategic exit. Across his career, Todd has been a principal in M&A transactions and capital raising efforts exceeding $750M — spanning acquisitions, divestitures, growth financings, and strategic partnerships across diversified industries. He founded Coppice Capital to deploy that experience as an investor and operator, acquiring and growing exceptional businesses for the long term.
Todd Williamson is a proven entrepreneur with a track record of building and exiting businesses across manufacturing and transportation. He previously founded, scaled, and successfully exited Williamson Ocean Trailers and Aztec Trailers, establishing himself as a leader in the trailer manufacturing industry. He also founded and grew a major shuttle company operating across Utah before executing a strategic exit. Todd brings that founder's mindset and operational depth to Built Trailers as Operating Partner, driving manufacturing excellence and commercial growth.
Brian Hyte is a seasoned technology executive who has served as CTO across multiple software companies, earning a reputation as a world-class systems architect. He has been the key technical force behind building platforms that are highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and engineered for enterprise-grade availability. His expertise spans rigorous formula and calculation accuracy, large-scale data architecture, and the creation of defensible data moats that compound competitive advantage over time. At Dealer Align, Brian channels that deep technical foundation into building a best-in-class SaaS platform purpose-built for the dealership industry.
Josh Phair is Co-Founder and CEO of The Wyoming Reserve, and the Founder and CEO of Scottsdale Mint — a U.S.-based global precious metals company he built from the ground up in 2008 after serving as Vice President at Willis Towers Watson, where he ran the North American Mining Practice and personally managed risk operations for dozens of the world's largest mining companies.
At Scottsdale Mint, Josh has overseen the management, trading, and hedging of billions of dollars in precious metals inventory, currencies, and digital assets, serving central banks, Fortune 500 companies, and sovereign nations across more than 20 countries. An early adopter of digital assets, he serves on the Advisory Board of Monarch Wallet and holds a degree in Business Risk Management from Florida State University.
Nick Stiller is a serial retail entrepreneur who has founded and operated numerous recreational retail businesses, consistently driving performance beyond natural capacity through exceptional leadership and a relentless focus on the customer experience. He has built a reputation for assembling loyal, high-performing teams that are unified around a winning culture — delivering best-in-class results through discipline, accountability, and a customer-first mindset at every touchpoint. At Elevated Marine, Nick brings that same proven playbook to bear, elevating the dealership experience and setting the standard for what recreational retail can look like in the Western US market.
Whether you're a business owner considering a sale, a management team seeking a capital partner, or an intermediary representing a client — we'd like to hear from you.