All in the family: Fede de la Balze and Tony Patti become co-CEOs at StaffScheduleCare
Fede and Tony have long been a part of the Pacific Lake family. We first met Fede in 2018, when he interned with Pacific Lake between his first and second years at Harvard Business School. He joined us full-time when he graduated in the spring of 2019, helping to build the Value Creation Team from the early days. Tony joined our Executive Leadership Program after graduating from Kellogg in 2020, where he worked as Chief of Staff and VP of Product & Strategy at Emporos, a Pacific Lake-backed search fund company.
When Fede spun out of Pacific Lake to launch Oasis Growth – a company he founded to buy, build, and grow software businesses – we were sad for him to leave. But we were excited to back him in his goal to create the growth partner of choice for high potential software businesses. A few months into his journey, he brought on Tony to help him run the first business they acquired.
It didn’t take them long to find the right company to partner with. Just six months after launching Oasis Growth, Fede and Tony bought StaffScheduleCare, a leading provider of workforce management software for long term care and senior care facilities in Canada. SSC is growing, profitable, and serves a mission critical need: scheduling in long term care homes. The opportunity to build the leading solution in Canada – and expand into the US – was compelling. They are now off and running as Co-CEOs. We’re excited to see what they build.
Two members of Pacific Lake’s extended family joined the board: Dennis Dracup and Pacific Lake-backed CEO Cyrus Symoom.
“Our approach is simple: be a great partner to our customers, investors, and the teams we lead and serve. To us, as to so many others before us, Pacific Lake has been THE go-to equity partner that’s made the difference in our journey. Here’s to another 10, 20 years of partnership.” – Fede de la Balze
