A family-built holding company · Summerville, Georgia

We're building proof of what's possible.

Our mission is bigger than any single acquisition: placing women in leadership across the trades, lifting up the people who do the work, and showing our two daughters exactly what's possible for them.

The Fidler-Wright family, three generations together on a fall hayride

Three generations, one wagon · Hayride season, Georgia

We measure success in more than EBITDA. Every company we hold is proof that women-led operations outperform.

Sierra Fidler & Zachary Wright Co-founders, Ridge & Valley Holdings

Leadership is the product we build.

The trades have a leadership pipeline problem, and it falls hardest on women. Women hold just 4.3 percent of U.S. construction trade jobs, 6 percent of first-line supervisor seats, and barely one in ten construction management roles (IWPR, 2025). Not for lack of talent, but for lack of a ladder. We acquire durable, essential businesses and build that ladder into every one of them: structured career paths, wage transparency, and promotion from within.

Every company we hold becomes proof. Proof to the industry that women-led operations outperform, proof to our teams that the next role up is reachable, and proof to our daughters that no room is closed to them.

That's why we hold for 7 to 15 years. Culture doesn't compound on a private-equity exit clock.

The numbers we intend to change

Proof, not platitudes.

4.3%of U.S. construction trade workers are women, a share stuck below 5% for two decades. (IWPR, 2025)

6.0%of first-line supervisors in construction are women, and roughly one in ten construction managers. (IWPR, 2025)

5.4%of construction apprentices are women, even after 186% growth since 2015. The pipeline needs owners who build it. (IWPR)

+25%Companies with gender-diverse executive teams are 25% more likely to out-earn their industry peers. (McKinsey)

The performance case is settled: S&P Global found firms that appointed women CFOs outperformed on share price by 8% and on profitability by 6% over the following 24 months. The talent is proven. The ladder is missing. We build ladders.

Two disciplines.
One unfair advantage.

SF Operations · Engineering · People

Sierra Fidler

Sierra pairs a Mechanical Engineering background with years of healthcare leadership, running teams where compliance, retention, and quality are non-negotiable. She translates that blend into the field: codified SOPs, structured employee intake, and career ladders that keep technicians for years, not seasons.

Mechanical Engineering Healthcare Leadership People Systems

ZW Technology · Scale

Zachary Wright

Zachary holds a Master's in Computer Science and built, scaled, and exited a technology company before turning to the trades. He owns the platform layer: the centralized back office, dispatch, and data infrastructure that let every acquired business modernize without losing what made it work.

M.S. Computer Science Founder & Exit Systems & Scale

Promises that don't change

Your name stays on the door

The brand, reputation, and community standing you built are preserved and invested in, never absorbed into a faceless platform.

Your people stay employed

We don't acquire businesses to cut headcount. We acquire them to build careers, with wage transparency and real promotion paths.

We hold for 7–15 years

We optimize for compounding free cash flow across decades, not an exit multiple. Your company is never staged for resale.

Let's talk about what you built.

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