Sheri L. Orlowitz
Sheri L. Orlowitz
Founding Partner, Artemis Holdings Group LLC
Sheri Orlowitz is both a visionary and a practical entrepreneur. She founded Artemis Holdings Group LLC (Artemis) to bring together a
team of creative professionals and advisors, some of whom she has worked with in the past, who have hands-on experience in dealing with
all stages of the life cycle of a business. Sheri finds this experience to be essential to providing comprehensive advice on M&A, acquisitions,
divestitures, restructuring and growth. Sheri directs the strategy behind Artemis’ international private investment fund and travels extensively
to Southern and Western Europe, using her wide network of international banks, funds, government officials, CEO’s, business owners and
advisors to identify opportunities.
Founding Artemis is a natural progression of Sheri’s twenty-year history of successfully acquiring, running and divesting diverse companies,
both domestically and internationally. During her career, Sheri raised well over $100 million, acquired or created a dozen companies from $6
million to $70 million and, importantly, was responsible for the companies and its employees, investors and the eventual successful
divestitures.
Prior to Artemis, Sheri founded and operated Shan Industries LLC, an acquisition vehicle targeting manufacturing companies. Sheri financed
and led Shan in identifying companies, raising capital, negotiating and conducting the associated due diligence. When Shan acquired two
companies from Tyco International, Sheri operated them as the CEO and CFO, successfully prosecuting a company crippling environmental
fraud by the seller and ultimately improving the EBITDA of the effected businesses by almost 320%. Shan exited through a sale to its
minority partners, Prairie Capital, a mid-market private equity company.
Before Shan, Sheri was a principal, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of DBI, a $70 million consortium of manufacturing
companies with operations and sales offices throughout Europe, the US and in Shenzhen, China. Sheri was instrumental in securing the
domestic and international financing to acquire the companies, Magnetic Data Technologies, Brumko Magnetics and AMBelgium. During
Sheri’s tenure with DBI, she presided over several acquisitions, including the purchase of a disc-drive operation from Quantum and a $55
million recording device company from Eastman Kodak whose chief customers were clandestine departments of the Department of
Defense and the NSA.
Sheri operates ahead of the curve and sees opportunities well before others. For example, she created Shan to acquire manufacturing
companies for low multiples when, until recently, manufacturing was out of favor. Sheri acquired a dilapidated tear down building in the then
very un-gentrified part of Washington, DC, known as Adams Morgan and developed the first, highly successful condominium complex in
the area. This creative thinking is also apparent in Sheri’s philanthropic leadership.
While Sheri is involved in many organizations focused on children and women she counts her most noteworthy accomplishment to be the
creation of the 22,000 sq. ft. Orlowitz-Lee Center in Miami. Established in 1999, the Center was Florida’s first and, indeed one of the few in
the nation at that time, one-stop shops, providing comprehensive services for abused children and their families, who at that time were a
chronically underserved, undervalued and largely ignored population. Sheri continued to push boundaries to extend the services to trafficked
girls. In 2007, the Staff created Project GOLD, part of the initial and ongoing funding of which Sheri raised through a grant from the Queen
of Sweden’s Childhood Foundation.