Investment firm lands veteran leadership

The rocking chair will have to wait for an ambitious 80-something who's launched Eagle Rock Partners, a private equity company.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:00 a.m. April 19, 2019
Jim Cheatham has helped launch Eagle Rock Partners, a Tampa-based private equity firm. Courtesy photo.
Jim Cheatham has helped launch Eagle Rock Partners, a Tampa-based private equity firm. Courtesy photo.
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Not one to rest on his laurels, business veteran Jim Cheatham — one of Wendy’s fast food chain’s first franchise owners and a former marketing executive for Holiday Inns — has joined forces with a trio of other Tampa executives to launch a private equity firm called Eagle Rock Partners.

 

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