About Our Firm

From 1995 to through 2020 Ken led the Stony Point Group team and served as the Chairman of the Board for all his aerospace and defense business investments.  Since then Ken has retired from all day to day operations and from all his board level positions.  Ken now works with his daughter Lara and a group of trusted advisors focusing his attention on the family’s investment allocation decisions.

Ken received his BSME and MS in aerospace from the University of Cincinnati and began his career working for Allis-Chalmers, Fiat-Allis, Massey Ferguson and Union Metal Industries.  These early career positions exposed Ken to managing a variety of business operations around the world.  During these years Ken developed a reputation for fixing underperforming business units.  He then went on to start up and build his own turnaround consulting firm, Glass & Associates where he became recognized as one of the country’s leading crisis management and turnaround professionals.  In 1995 he left the day to day operations of Glass & Associates to start Stony Point Group after completing his first acquisition.

Bernie serves as the CEO of Stony Point and the Chairman of the Board of all the family’s privately held companies.  In support of existing investments, Bernie oversees the management team of each company, develops long-term growth strategies, manages the capital required from the family and third party lenders, and meets with customers, suppliers and financial partners as necessary to articulate our long term vision and the commitment of the family to these businesses.  Bernie leads the ongoing efforts to identify and complete new acquisition opportunities.

Under the guidance of Ken since joining the firm in 2002, Bernie has developed a deep understanding of managing businesses in the aerospace and defense industry as he has worked closely with the management teams of the family’s private businesses learning how each business operates and the key metrics that drive their success.  He has served on the board of directors of these companies, arranged their financings, and orchestrated all of the acquisitions and divestitures of the family’s privately held companies.

Prior to Stony Point, Bernie worked first as a practicing CPA at Ernst & Young and a practicing lawyer at the predecessor to Clark Hill.  He then served in General Counsel and CFO positions for an industrial chemical company and a plastics manufacturing company.  Bernie holds a Bachelor of Arts in accounting from Washington & Jefferson College and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh.

Matt Kaspar joined the company in February 2021. He has a diverse background in finance, banking, and operations. Before joining Stony Point, Matt served as Vice President of Finance at HSM Solutions, a large, privately held manufacturing company. Prior to that, Matt worked in Service Delivery at Systems Maintenance Services (now Curvature), investment banking at McColl Partners and JPMorgan Chase, and in management consulting at The Finley Group. He also held positions at Ernst & Young LLP in the Transaction Advisory Services and Assurance Advisory Business Services groups. Matt received a bachelor of business administration, master of accounting, and master of business administration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

Bill Coquillette joined the company in January 2014 after retiring as a partner in the Jones Day law firm. In his 37 years at Jones Day, Bill practiced in the area of mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance with most of his time devoted to complex business acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, venture capital investments, and other private equity transactions. He had a leading role in over 300 completed transactions. He served Jones Day in several management roles, including two three year terms of service on the firm’s advisory committee. In addition to serving as a director of several portfolio companies managed by the company, Bill currently serves as the chairman of the board of Bettcher LLC, a metal stamping business headquartered in McAllen, Texas. He is a former director of The Lamson & Sessions Co., Polychem Corporation, and Motor Wheel Corporation, and has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations. Bill received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from Yale University, a Master of Arts in Jurisprudence from University College, Oxford (which he attended as a Marshall Scholar), and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School.