We engage with leaders, companies and organizations,
committed to performance that creates lasting, positive impact.
PURPOSE | PEOPLE | Performance
Ambassador Enterprises is a legacy-minded private equity firm that has created a network of affiliate companies with a unified commitment to cultivating legacies grounded in purpose, people, and performance.
Ambassador Enterprises was founded by Daryle Doden in 2006 and is based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Cultivate A Legacy
We invest in purpose, people, and performance. This is the core of culture, and culture is how sustainable success happens. From that foundation, legacy is created.
With PURPOSE, we commit to something beyond ourselves. With PEOPLE, catalytic change begins. With PERFORMANCE, results create impact.
Meet Our Leadership
At Ambassador Enterprises, we prioritize team. It is the inspiration, dreams, devotion, and dedication of people that dictates how success is defined and when it is achieved. Daryle actively leads AE alongside the leadership team in pursuing our 100-year vision. As legacy buyers and owners, we build relationships and strategies with long-term goals in mind. Together we share ideas, resources and create common goals to co-create in a way that accelerates sustainable growth and builds better communities.
Daryle Doden
Arlan Friesen
Jeremy Gayed
Brad Miller
Bob Vitoux
Years in Business
13
Employees in our affiliate companies*
2000
Annual Revenue*
$
650
*Includes associated non-affiliates
Performance
We help leaders, companies, and organizations cultivate legacies. We focus on performance that generates results and work with leaders to understand the returns that matter. Positive financial results are defined as a success only when driven by purpose that creates lasting, positive impact in communities.
Our Affiliate Companies
Ambassador Enterprises has created a network of affiliate companies with a unified commitment to cultivating legacies grounded in purpose, people, and performance.
Correct Craft has a 94-year history as a marine product manufacturer and developer, operating in more than 60 countries. Along with the Nautique boat brand, Correct Craft’s portfolio of companies includes additional boat brands, engine brands, and recreational watersport cable parks.
Mend Medical invests in companies that have innovative technologies and transformational ideas to solve real problems in the healthcare industry. They partner with companies to impact the culture of healthcare by working to lower costs, eliminate waste and make life better for patients.
VIA Developments is a full-service real estate development company based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. From new developments to renovations, to ongoing property management, they aim to bring transformative real estate projects to life.
SOLV Holdings, LLC, is a privately-held investment management company. We invest in companies that engineer, design-build, control, service, and safeguard complex industrial systems. As partners to each of our company leaders, our role is to optimize, grow, and integrate our portfolio by offering guidance on vision, strategy, leadership, and operations to maximize financial returns and increase positive impact on stakeholders and our communities.
Ambassador Supply is a group of companies that focuses on providing manufactured building products, post-frame building solutions and the highest quality building materials to professional contractors within the agricultural and residential building markets.
ATI co-creates digital products and solutions with the midwest’s finest corporations and entrepreneurs. By combining private technology investment and custom development into a single firm, ATI helps their partners reach their summit and optimize their long-term impact.
For more than 50 years, American LandMaster (formerly known as American SportWorks) has been manufacturing and distributing on- and off-road UTVs, with over a million vehicles sold to date. American LandMaster UTVs and power sport vehicles are built tough to tackle any task and make the most of any property. Where there’s a job to be done, there’s an American LandMaster vehicle built for the challenge.
Engage With Us
Ambassador Enterprises actively seeks to buy companies, greenfield opportunities, and to partner with other like-minded leaders. If you have a desire to sell your organization, solve an unmet need in the marketplace, or want to partner with us in another way, please let us know. We want to hear from you!
