Waud Capital Partners (“Waud Capital” or the “Firm”), a leading growth-oriented lower middle-market private equity firm with $2.1 billion in assets under management, announces the appointment of Andrew Rueff as an operating partner, effective immediately. In this new position, Mr. Rueff will work with the Firm’s business and technology services investment team and pursue new platform investments in the payments and financial technology sector, an initiative to which Waud Capital has initially committed at least $100 million of equity capital.