Jack Glover is the Founder and Managing Partner of Incline Equity Partners, a Pittsburgh-based private equity firm in the middle market, with a flagship fund just under $2B.

He has been investing for more than 30 years — and many of the investors who first backed him are still with him today.

Katie and Jack talk about why he refused to chase a bigger fund, the belief that size is the enemy of returns, the age-12 loss that shaped his approach, and how Incline seeks to create value once it owns a business.

His take on continuation vehicles: he looks to put his own money into single-asset deals where the GP rolls 100% of their carry.

Jack Glover is the Founder and Managing Partner of Incline Equity Partners, a Pittsburgh-based private equity firm focused on the middle and lower-middle market across services, value-added distribution, and specialized light manufacturing. Over a 30-plus-year career, he has built Incline into a widely recognized middle-market buyout firm.

Before founding Incline, Jack spent 15 years at PNC Equity Partners. He began his career at Westinghouse Credit Corp. and went on to the investment banking division of Wheat First Securities. Today Incline manages a flagship fund of just under $2B alongside its Elevate and Ascent funds, which keep the firm active at the smaller end of the market.

Jack holds a B.S. with honors from Duquesne University, where he is a Distinguished Alumnus, and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. A proud native of Pittsburgh, he founded the Incline Foundation, which supports education in under-invested communities.

The Re-Up is a podcast about the business of raising and allocating capital in private markets — and how that work can be done better. In private markets, a re-up is the decision to recommit to a manager's next fund: the ultimate signal of trust. Each episode is a candid conversation with the LPs, GPs, and advisors who have built exceptional track records — the conversations that usually happen over dinner after the conference, not the ones on stage. Hosted by Katie Fasken, founder of August Advisors, a Toronto-based placement firm connecting exceptional private investment managers with institutional capital.