Michael Falk

Michael is the Founder, Chairman and Investment Committee Member of Vesterra Capital Partners.
Michael served as Founder and Executive Chairman of Comvest Partners, a leading middle-market investment firm specializing in private equity and credit strategies, until November 2025, when Vesterra Capital Partners became an independent entity after the sale of Comvest Credit to Manulife Investment Management.
Over a span of 25 years, he led the firm's growth from its founding in 2000 into a diversified investment platform with nearly $17 billion of assets under management, providing financing solutions across the capital structure.
Prior to founding Comvest, Michael co-founded its predecessor company, Commonwealth Associates, a merchant and investment bank that provided over $1 billion of equity to finance the operations, acquisitions and/or restructuring of more than 100 technology, healthcare, and services-related lower-middle-market businesses.
Outside of Comvest, Michael is an active philanthropist.
He is Co-Trustee of The Michael and Annie Falk Foundation, which is dedicated to high-impact community service and philanthropic work in early childhood education, law enforcement and environmental preservation.
Michael's educational causes also include institutions of higher learning; he has supported scholarships at Queens College and the establishment of a research laboratory in environmental exposomics at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment.
Michael received a B.A. in Economics from Queens College and executive education through programs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School.