Team

NextLight is built to acquire and operate strong essential service businesses with care, preserving the company's people, reputation, and customer relationships while supporting its next stage of growth.

Minka Liu

Minka Liu

Managing Partner

Operator with experience in strategy consulting, technology leadership, and hands-on SMB operations.

  • Strategy consulting, PwC Strategy&
  • Technology leadership in operations and program management, Amazon
  • Ex-owner-operator experience
  • MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Alex Li

Alex Li

Principal

Strategy, product, and program leader with experience across growth, go-to-market, and local business advisory.

  • Co-founder, Handfelt
  • Co-founder, AM Exponential, advising local small businesses and startups
  • MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Wing-cee Tang

Wing-cee Tang

Deal Advisor

Experienced M&A professional with deep lower middle market transaction experience across sell-side and buy-side processes, valuation, diligence, and transaction execution.

  • Corporate Development Finance, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund
  • Lower middle market investment banking, Lincoln International
  • Strategy diligence and valuation, KPMG US
  • MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Financial Backing

Committed capital to close with confidence.

NextLight is supported by family offices and high-net-worth individual investors who understand long-term ownership and the importance of a reliable transition.

High-Net-Worth Individual Investors

Experienced operators, executives, and investors who bring flexible capital, practical judgment, and confidence around closing.

Family Offices

Patient capital partners with long-term investment horizons and experience supporting privately held companies through succession and growth.

For the right business and the right transition, we can move with speed, flexibility, and certainty while respecting what the owner has built.

Minka Liu, Managing Partner