ABOUT SPRING RUN CAPITAL
Thirty years of building.
Now deploying it here.
Allen Mason founded Spring Run Capital in 2024 to do something that most private equity cannot: invest in Midwest businesses with real operating experience, genuine patience, and a long-term orientation toward community impact.
He spent the first thirty years of his career inside the largest companies in American business — and the PE-backed firms that try to move at their pace. At Procter & Gamble, he managed full P&L responsibility for the $400M Swiffer business, drove brand strategy for Gillette, and led global digital programs across some of the world's most recognized consumer brands. At Kroger, he helped architect the commercial foundation of what became Kroger Precision Marketing — now a $1.5B+ retail media platform. As a C-suite advisor to Fortune 500 and PE-backed companies, he worked across industries including business services, manufacturing, consumer, and retail.
His most recent operating role was Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer at Nationwide Marketing Group, a PE-backed business services company, where he drove 150% EBITDA growth in a contractor business unit over two years — in a down economic cycle.
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Allen is a lifelong Ohioan, educated at the University of Cincinnati (M.S. and B.S., Mechanical Engineering). He believes the best businesses in America are often in the middle of the country, quietly compounding value for the communities they serve. Spring Run Capital was built to find those businesses and help them grow.
WHY THE MIDWEST. WHY NOW.
The best deals in America aren't always in New York.
The lower middle market in Ohio and the Midwest is full of businesses that have been building quietly for decades — family-owned, under-resourced, and often overlooked by coastal capital. These companies are the backbone of local economies. They employ skilled people. They serve real customers. They have earned their margins.
Spring Run Capital was founded in Cincinnati to be a different kind of buyer for these businesses. Not a turnaround play. Not a financial extraction. A partnership built around what comes next.