Orlando Patrick

Managing Partner

Orlando Patrick is the Founder, a boutique private equity firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. With a background spanning real estate development, hospitality, and private equity, Orlando brings decades of entrepreneurial and investment experience.

Raised in Oak Park, Illinois, Orlando excelled as an athlete before transitioning into business, attending North Dakota State College of Science and later Western Illinois University on a Division I basketball scholarship. Following a professional basketball career overseas, he built a thriving real estate development company responsible for more than 2,000 residential and commercial units, along with several hotel assets in Chicago and the Caribbean.

Today, through Patrick Capital, Orlando focuses on acquiring cash-flowing service-based businesses under a legacy buyer strategy—preserving the reputation, people, and culture of each company acquired. His vision is to build a national portfolio of companies across waste management, commercial cleaning, landscaping, and hospitality.

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Sterling Grant serves as Chief Financial Officer of Patrick Capital LLC, responsible for overseeing the firm’s financial strategy, capital structuring, and deal execution. He partners closely with the leadership team to manage valuations, leveraged buyouts, and transaction financing, ensuring each deal aligns with Patrick Capital’s acquisition strategy.

With deep expertise in asset-based lending, private credit, and cash-flow financing, Sterling is instrumental in sourcing and structuring the capital solutions that fuel Patrick Capital’s acquisitions. His work helps position the firm as a trusted legacy buyer, committed to preserving the people and reputations of the businesses it acquires.

Sterling Grant

Marcus Ellington

Director of Investments

Marcus Ellington serves as Director of Investments at Patrick Capital LLC, where he leads deal sourcing, market research, and relationship management with business owners, brokers, and financial partners. With a strong background in private equity and corporate finance, Marcus plays a key role in expanding Patrick Capital’s pipeline of service-based business acquisitions.

He focuses on identifying opportunities in the firm’s priority sectors, including waste management, commercial cleaning, and hospitality, ensuring each acquisition aligns with Patrick Capital’s legacy buyer strategy. Marcus’s expertise in financial analysis and negotiation supports the firm’s mission to preserve the reputation, people, and culture of the businesses it acquires.