Woodson Equity Expands Leadership Team With Two Key Senior Appointments

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 8, 2026--

Woodson Equity, an operationally focused lower middle market private equity firm, today announced the addition of two senior leaders, as the firm continues to scale its investment platform and institutional infrastructure. Eugene Kim joins as Co-Head of Originations, and Tom Cleary joins as General Counsel. These appointments mark a significant step in Woodson’s evolution, reinforcing its commitment to building a best-in-class team capable of sourcing and executing complex transactions and providing the necessary operational support thereafter.

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Eugene Kim — Co-Head of Originations

Eugene joins Woodson Equity with a strong track record in deal origination and business development across the private equity ecosystem. As Co-Head of Originations, Eugene leads the firm’s investment sourcing strategy and supports the execution of new platform acquisitions and following add-on opportunities. Eugene focuses on building and deepening relationships with investment banks, corporate sellers, financial sponsors and key intermediaries in order to drive consistent, high-quality deal flow.

Prior to joining Woodson Equity, Eugene served as Vice President of Business Development at Pacific Avenue Capital Partners, where he played a key role in expanding the firm’s investment pipeline and supporting the growth of Pacific’s Fund I and Fund II through targeted origination initiatives and the development of strategic relationships with investment banks and corporate sellers, among others. Previously, Eugene was a Senior Associate at Atar Capital, where he was responsible for sourcing platform and add-on acquisitions. Eugene began his career at Harvey and Company, specializing in buy-side advisory matters, and holds a B.S. in Policy Analysis and Management, with a concentration in Corporate Finance, from Cornell University.

Tom Cleary — General Counsel

Tom brings over three decades of transactional legal experience to Woodson Equity and, throughout his career, has advised private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as institutional investors, on a variety of legal matters. Prior to joining Woodson, Tom held senior roles at leading law firms, including Riordan & McKinzie and, most recently, Dykema Gossett.

As General Counsel, Tom will oversee all legal, regulatory, compliance and governance matters for Woodson Equity. In this capacity, Tom will be involved with M&A execution, financings and fund formations, as well as matters that will involve broader legal strategies in support of Woodson’s investment operations.

Over the course of his career, Tom has advised on hundreds of transactions, spanning platform acquisitions, portfolio curation and exit strategies, to numerous leading private equity firms. Tom holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law.

"Having worked with Eugene and Tom for years at a prior firm, I've seen the impact firsthand that they bring as absolute force multipliers. Their arrival comes at a key inflection point for Woodson Equity as we continue to integrate proven leaders with decades of experience in originating and executing complex M&A transactions. We’re building a platform designed to win in complex environments, and their addition materially strengthens our ability to execute on our thesis of delivering transformational outcomes with even greater speed, precision, and consistency for our partners,” said Vijay Mony, Founder and Managing Partner.

About Woodson Equity

Woodson Equity is a Washington, D.C., based private equity firm founded in 2023, specializing in lower middle-market corporate carve-outs, divestitures and complex situations. The firm leverages a hands-on, operational approach to drive transformation and long-term value creation. With over 80 years of combined investing and operating experience, Woodson partners with management teams to unlock performance and scale companies through disciplined execution. For more information about Woodson Equity, please visit www.woodsonequity.com.

Woodson Equity Expands Leadership Team With Two Key Senior Appointments

Nvidia's latest quarterly results once again blew past Wall Street's expectations as revenue for the computer chip company's high-end artificial intelligence chips soared, the latest sign that AI infrastructure spending remains strong.

The company reported on Wednesday net income of $59.69 billion, or $2.46 per share, for the May-July period. That compares to net income of $26.42 billion, or $1.08 per share, in the same quarter last year.

Excluding certain items, earnings were $2.22 per share, well above the $2.09 per share consensus forecast by Wall Street analysts, according to FactSet.

Revenue more than doubled from a year earlier to $96.22 billion, surpassing analysts’ average forecast of $92.27 billion.

“AI has reached its inflection point. It’s doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue,” said CEO Jensen Huang in a statement.

The Santa Clara, California, company's results have regularly cleared the bar set by analysts in the past three years, often by a wide margin, since Nvidia’s high-end chips emerged as AI’s best building blocks.

Along with higher profit and revenue, however, Nvidia’s operating expenses surged 55% to $8.41 billion.

For the current quarter, Nvidia forecast revenue of about $108 billion. Analysts are forecasting $104.86 billion.

If Nvidia hits its revenue target for the August-October period, it will translate into a roughly 89% increase from last year — an indication that Nvidia’s phenomenal growth rate is still accelerating. The company said it’s not assuming any data center compute revenue from China in its outlook.

Nvidia expects to grow its revenue in its fiscal year ending January 2028 by about 70%, citing surging demand for its AI-powering chips. In fact, the company's growth outlook would be closer to double, based on its customers' own forecasts, if it weren't for challenges in sourcing enough supplies to meet the chip production demand, noted CFO Colette Kress in a call with Wall Street analysts.

Huang also emphasized the supply limitations the company is grappling with.

“Our entire supply chain is challenged,” he told analysts. “At this point we have supply for 70%. ... Our demand is much higher than that.”

Nvidia’s data center segment, which includes its AI data centers and factories business, as well as chip demand from hyperscalers — operators of huge cloud-computing data centers such as Amazon, Meta and Google — reported revenue of $89 billion, up more than twofold from a year earlier.

Capital spending by the top five hyperscalers is expected to reach nearly $800 billion this year and $1.3 trillion in 2027, Kress noted.

On Wednesday, Nvidia and Amazon Web Services announced a plan to deploy 2 million additional Nvidia graphic processing units, and will incorporate Nvidia chips to power its fleet of warehouse robots.

Kress also said the company expects that its computer processing unit revenue will more than double in fiscal 2028, “positioning us as one of the world’s leading server CPU suppliers.”

Nvidia’s shares rose 4.1% in after-hours trading following the earnings call. The stock ended the regular trading session 1.6% lower and is up 12.4% so far this year.

The company’s edge computing segment, which includes chips bringing AI-powered features to computers, game consoles and robotics, among others, posted revenue of $7.2 billion, up 27% from the same period last year.

Despite the stellar results and still-rosy outlook, many investors worry about a jarring comedown after a three-year boom that has seen Nvidia’s market value soar from $400 billion at the end of 2022 to roughly $5.2 trillion now.

While AI has powered stock market gains and U.S. economic growth in recent years, there’s been growing skepticism about whether AI will justify the trillions of dollars that are being spent to develop the technology.

The AI industry is also increasingly facing pushback amid objections to the expansion in data centers and fears that the speed with which AI is being adopted could lead to widespread job losses for many Americans.

FILE - Jensen Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, waits for a groundbreaking ceremony for an expansion of Coherent's manufacturing facility to begin on June 16, 2026, in Sherman, Texas. (AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter, File)