Austin Ramos

Austin is a Founding Partner of BVP with a focus on building sustainable, scalable businesses through an operationally focused, hands-on approach to value-added private equity. Austin comes from a third-generation family business and founded RunCap Partners, the lower-middle market investment arm of an affiliated family office. Previously, Austin served as CEO of Omniboard, a technology and services provider offering three tools – data-extraction hardware, enterprise platform software, and a 24/7/365 call center – and an electrical contractor installation service that together allow building managers to remotely monitor and control their major electricity-consuming devices (e.g., HVAC, lighting). Prior to Omniboard, Austin worked as an Associate directly with BVP Managing Partner Steve Lebowitz at the private equity firm Steve co-founded. Before that firm, Austin was an Analyst at private equity firm Fundamental Capital. Austin graduated from UCLA with a focus on Economics and Political Science. He is a former four-time All-American long-distance runner, UCLA record holder (3000m), and Adidas-sponsored professional athlete. Austin and his wife, Kate, have two young boys, Miles and Graham. In addition to spending time with his family, Austin loves to play sports (any sport) as well as play the acoustic guitar.