OUR DNA
People like to talk about street credentials, as if success begins on the street. Not quite.
Success begins the moment you get off the street and start working, because only work can teach you an industry.
We’re a company of lifelong workers.
Our principals all have their own stories, with a common thread of having started within their industries at the entry level – a doorman here, a researcher there – and worked their way up to become today’s Essence Investments partners.
But this isn’t about rags-to-riches; it’s about the benefits of a long, detailed, hands-on education.
It’s about knowing the nuts and bolts and not-so-pretty daily machinations of key industries like hospitality, media, technology, and international commerce. It’s about seeing (and designing) what’s next by knowing what’s been, from the inside and from the bottom up.
Our DNA comes directly from our principals and the synergy of their experiences.
Having grown up within these dynamic industries, we’re deeply and almost pedantically knowledgeable about what it takes to actually run every business and brand we own, craft, manage, or promote.
As lifestyle consumers who have lived within every demographic, we appreciate the big and small differences that separate the premium from the mass.
In this time, Essence Investments has curated a portfolio of successful brands and hard-earned relationships with the best and brightest creative minds in the global lifestyle, trading & investment universe, we intuitively balance our passions with the value-minded measures of mature financial managers.
Essence Investments is where great ideas come of age.
