Peter Griscom, 33

Peter Griscom started his first business while in college and already has years of experience in the consumer-packaged goods and manufacturing spaces. He’s been putting that insight to good use in his latest venture, Van Dyke Acquisitions. The firm acquires companies that are distressed or struggling to grow.

The Naples-based firm doesn’t limit itself to particular kinds of companies, but it often finds good acquisition candidates in the consumer goods and manufacturing industries. Van Dyke Acquisitions currently owns 11 different businesses with about 180 total employees.

“I love the ability to wake up every day and do something a little bit different,” Griscom says. “I consider myself a generalist; I’m an inch deep and a mile wide on a lot of things.”