Meet our team

Marques Torbert

Managing Partner

Marques is a founding partner of 5th Century Partners (“5CP”). He has spent time in private equity, as well as building and scaling a lower middle market business as an operator.

Prior to founding 5CP, Marques was the CEO and Chairman of Ametros, a middle market, private equity backed healthcare and insurance services company. While serving as CEO and subsequently Chairman at Ametros, Marques led the company’s overall strategic direction and worked with the leadership team to grow the company’s enterprise value by more than 30x, ultimately resulting in a sale to Webster Bank for $350M. Prior to Ametros, Marques was an investment professional at Clarion Capital Partners, a middle market private equity firm, where he focused on business and insurance services. Earlier in his career, Marques was an investment banker at Lazard Freres where he focused on mergers and acquisitions across a variety of industries.

Marques holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics from Columbia University. He currently resides in Chicago with his wife, Alli, and twin daughters.