About
Juan Pablo Aguad
Juan Aguad is the Founder and Managing Partner of Aguad Capital Partners, where he is pursuing the acquisition and long-term operation of a single, exceptional lower-middle-market business in the United States.
Juan is a proven founder-operator with deep experience in manufacturing, distribution, and disciplined value creation. He previously founded and served as CEO of Bompaning, a frozen baked-goods manufacturer that he scaled from inception to over 180 employees and approximately $12 million in annual revenue. Under his leadership, Bompaning became a leading platform in its category, supplying national and regional customers across retail, hospitality, and wholesale channels, while expanding exports across Latin America to represent roughly 30% of total revenue.
Juan built Bompaning to solve a mission-critical operational problem—cost volatility and quality control—by vertically integrating production, professionalizing operations, and installing data-driven management systems.
He led the company through periods of extreme macroeconomic volatility, supply-chain disruptions, and COVID-era shutdowns, while maintaining growth through pricing discipline, mix optimization, and operational rigor. His experience includes building and managing multi-plant operations, leading cross-functional executive teams, negotiating enterprise customer contracts, and instituting KPI-driven performance cadences across production, logistics, sales, and finance.
In addition to his operating background, Juan brings transactional and analytical experience from his work in M&A advisory, where he supported acquisitions across food, industrials, agribusiness, and technology-enabled services. This combination of hands-on operating leadership and financial underwriting informs Aguad Capital Partners’ thesis-driven, disciplined approach to acquiring founder-owned businesses.
Juan holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he was a merit-based Fellow, an M.A. in Economics from Universidad de San Andrés, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires, graduating in the top tier of his class. He is actively engaged in the entrepreneurship-through-acquisition community and values long-term alignment with business owners, employees, and investment partners.
At Aguad Capital Partners, Juan’s objective is not financial engineering, but stewardship: acquiring a high-quality business, preserving its culture and legacy, and compounding its value through operational excellence, thoughtful growth, and disciplined capital allocation.