Stick together: Growth equity leaders partner up for the long haul

Twenty years is a long time to work for any company, let alone an investment firm that operates in the fast-paced world of growth capital, where entrepreneurial opportunities abound. 

Yet Steve Lux, Travis Milks and Brian Model, the co-founders of Tampa-based Topmark Partners and a new growth equity fund, find themselves still working alongside one another two decades after they first joined forces as Stonehenge Growth Equity Partners. The triumvirate is special not only because of their longevity but also because of their age diversity. Lux, 63, is the elder statesman, Model is 54, and Milks is 42. “Travis was our first intern,” Lux says.