Managing Partners

Sean M. Quinn

seanquinn@makersforward.com

CEO/Founding Partner

Sean Quinn has been managing and investing in private companies for more than 25 years and is the founding partner of Makers Forward. Sean started his career with Black & Decker and worked his way to P&L responsibility of the $100+ Million consumer accessories business. He left to acquire a hand tool business divestiture and founded PowerShot Tool Company, a manufacturer of consumer fastening products. After assembling a management team that grew PowerShot by more than five times it was sold to Masco Corp.

IDL Tools was formed by Sean and a group of partner managers to acquire and grow home improvement product manufacturers. After more than quadrupling revenues it was sold to Stanley Black & Decker in 2018.

Sean is a graduate of Loyola University Maryland, where he earned Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Business Administration degrees.

Investors / Limited Partner Profiles

The Makers Forward investor group includes various Business Operator, Private Equity, and Hedge Fund Executives, as well as an investment company.

Why Makers Forward?

The name Makers Forward highlights our objective to invest in manufacturing businesses (“makers”) and utilize our experience, contacts, and resources to help move the company in the right direction (“forward”). We often hear that if a business is not growing (or innovating) it is dying –we help the manufacturing companies that we partner with to grow and improve. We have experience acquiring distressed businesses, corporate divestitures, retiring owners, etc. and will review most business situations for control investment.