Ilirian Ameti

Managing Partner

Former LMM Capital & Third Lake Partners · University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ilirian Ameti is the Managing Partner of Profitability Partners, with a decade of experience in private equity and corporate finance. He was previously a Senior Associate at LMM Capital, a multi-billion-dollar investment group. At Profitability Partners, he has served in a CFO capacity for companies across a range of industries and sizes, helping clients raise debt and equity capital and supporting triple-digit revenue growth for several of them.

Prior to that, Ilirian was a Senior Analyst at Third Lake Partners, a family office, where he was responsible for evaluating, conducting due diligence on, and building valuation models for private equity, venture capital, and real estate transactions totaling over $250 million in value. Previously, he was a Financial Analyst in Amazon’s corporate finance group and a summer equity research analyst at Robert W. Baird, a preeminent middle market investment bank.

Ilirian received his Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance, Investments and Banking from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he graduated with honors.

Raymond Gong

Senior Partner

Former Black Diamond Capital & Third Lake Partners · Vanderbilt University

Raymond Gong is a Senior Partner and fractional CFO at Profitability Partners. Raymond’s professional background has been marked by both significant transactional and portfolio experience in the private equity sphere. He has extensive experience evaluating, acquiring, and working to improve businesses across a broad range of industries and has cumulatively executed over $1 billion in private equity and real estate transactions.

Raymond was previously a private equity investment professional at Black Diamond Capital Management, a turnaround- and distressed-focused fund with $10 billion under management and a private equity portfolio generating $1 billion in combined EBITDA annually. In this role, he was focused on distressed and value-oriented majority acquisitions and other bespoke capital solutions. He was responsible for evaluating and understanding various businesses, performing commercial, market, and other fundamental operational due diligence, and identifying and implementing business turnarounds.

Prior to Black Diamond, Raymond was a private equity Senior Analyst at Third Lake Partners, a family office serving the interests of a Forbes 400 family, where he was responsible for buyouts, growth equity, venture capital, and real estate investments. Raymond was also responsible for the management of a specialty consumer finance business.

Raymond received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Vanderbilt University.

Matthew Mooney

Senior Partner

Former Apex Service Partners & Third Lake Partners · University of Notre Dame

Matthew is a Senior Partner at Profitability Partners, leveraging more than six years of mergers and acquisitions experience to support clients with budgeting, working capital management, and capital raising efforts, among other areas.

Matthew was previously an Associate on the Corporate Development team at Apex Service Partners, where he led the closing of over 25 residential home services acquisitions over two years, representing more than $500 million of transaction value, and helped the business grow from a $300 million platform to over $2 billion.

Previously, Matthew was a private equity and real estate Associate at Third Lake Partners, where he underwrote and executed deals on the buy- and sell-side totaling over $500 million in enterprise value.

Matthew graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BBA in Finance and Economics.

Tom Kim

CFO & Head of M&A

Former Houlihan Lokey, JMP Securities, Cascadia Capital & PwC · Duke MBA

Tom has more than a decade of experience across accounting and investment banking. He began his career in PwC’s audit practice in New York, then moved to the firm’s Corporate Finance and Transaction Advisory Services group, where he executed M&A transactions and provided financial due diligence.

After business school, Tom was a Vice President in investment banking at leading firms including Houlihan Lokey and JMP Securities, advising clients on M&A transactions. Most recently, he was a Vice President at Cascadia Capital.

Tom holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a master’s in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin.

Charles Kubat, CPA

CFO & Head of Accounting and Financial Due Diligence

Former Ernst & Young & KPMG · Transaction Advisory & FP&A

Charles Kubat is a CPA with over a decade of Big 4 experience at Ernst & Young and KPMG. During his Big 4 career, he worked in audit and transaction advisory services, including preparation of Quality of Earnings analyses and assisting with the preparation of deal-basis and GAAP-basis financial statements for contemplated divestitures.

In addition to his Big 4 experience, Charles brings significant financial planning and analysis experience supporting lower to middle market private equity-backed companies. His experience includes financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, cash flow analysis, and supporting M&A and growth initiatives.

Mikael Reijonen

CFO & Head of FP&A

Former SEB & Nordic Growth Investment Banking · Aalto University MSc, Vanderbilt University

Mikael Reijonen is a CFO and Head of FP&A at Profitability Partners. He brings investment banking experience from SEB, the largest bank in the Nordics, and Nordic Growth, an M&A advisory firm, with transaction experience across M&A, capital raising and equity capital markets, and debt financing totaling over €150 million — including deals in the HVAC and home services space.

Mikael served in the Finnish military and holds a Master of Science in Finance from Aalto University, which he completed a year ahead of schedule, and a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University.