Our Team
The Cork Partners team is comprised of seasoned operators, leaders, and advisors with a history of sustained performance.
Jack O’Donnell
Founder
A Baltimore native, Jack has a background in consulting, sales, and competitive sports that positions him to successfully lead and run a business. Jack's upbringing, rooted in the values of grit, integrity, humility, hustle, and teamwork, shapes his perspective. His parents – an Irish-American orthopedic surgeon who played basketball for Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina and a professional writer and editor who comes from a family of farmers in Oklahoma – imparted lessons of hard work and respect from an early age.
At the McChrystal Group, Jack partnered with dozens of senior leaders across the Technology, Healthcare, Insurance, Energy, Education, Aerospace, Automotive, and Financial Services industries to help them mold a “team of teams,” in accordance with General McChrystal’s philosophy that organizations that operate as a nimble group of teams aligned around a common mission will consistently outperform competitors. Jack led the firm’s expansion efforts in several major cities, meeting over 200 senior business leaders in the process. It was this experience that solidified his conviction that good leadership is the key ingredient to a company’s long-term success. Jack’s time working in software sales at Oracle equipped him with the skills to navigate complex business landscapes and develop a deep understanding of client needs.
Jack brings extensive experience building and leading teams – from rowing on Georgetown's varsity heavyweight crew team, to being a top sales rep at Oracle, to directing the growth team at McChrystal Group, to chairing the Entrepreneurship Club at Tuck, he is committed to persevering in complex operating environments and delivering value. Jack recently completed his MBA at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he hosted dozens of small business leaders as the founder of Tuck’s Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Club.
When he’s not focused on partnering with business owners, you’ll find Jack golfing, skiing, flying, or watching sports.
Advisors
Coley Andrews
Coley is a co-founder and the Managing Partner of Pacific Lake. Since starting the firm in 2009, Coley has worked with hundreds of search fund entrepreneurs and CEOs. He is responsible for leading Pacific Lake’s strategic direction and growth, and works closely with companies in the Pacific Lake portfolio as an active advisor and board member.
Gerald Risk
Gerald is a Partner at TTCER, an investment partnership established by key founding team members and investors in Asurion, the world’s leading provider of technology protection and support services for mobile devices. He most recently served as Vice Chairman of Asurion, partnering with the world’s top companies and brands to serve over 250 million customers globally.
Kevin Oxendine
Kevin is a Partner at Pacific Lake where he works closely with search fund entrepreneurs throughout their search, acquisition and operating phases. He is is a two-time successful CEO/COO. Over his three years at Wistia, a video SaaS company, Kevin led the company to grow from $8M to over $30M in ARR. At Havit, a consulting firm, Kevin grew the firm from $6M to $36M in capitalized billings over three years.
Will Thorndike
Will is currently the Managing Partner of The Cromwell Harbor Partnership, a private investment company with a variety of long term holdings. At Housatonic Partners, Mr. Thorndike was the pioneering institutional investor in search funds and played a central role in refining their acquisition criteria over the last twenty-five years. He is also the author of The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success.
Bill Egan
Bill is founder and General Partner of Alta Communications and Marion Equity Partners, Massachusetts-based venture capital firms. He founded Alta’s predecessor firm, Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. in 1979, and has identified and backed several of America’s leading growth companies in the information technology, life sciences, and communications industries including Fedex, Continental Cablevision, Cephalon and Asurion.
Brad Brown
Brad is the managing director of Applied Equity. He is an executive advisor and coach, with deep professional expertise in B2B Services, Tech-Enabled Services, and Software. Mr. Brown is also a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, where he was a senior leader of the Technology practice, and the global leader of the Big Data practice.
Tiffany Augustyn
Tiffany has spent her career as a middle market and growth equity private equity investor working alongside driven leaders and management teams to build great companies. Prior to joining Endurance, Tiffany was an investor with TPG Capital and L Catterton where she helped lead a number of buyout and growth equity investments as well as served on the Board of several portfolio companies.
Jose Stella
Jose is currently Co-CEO and Co-Founder of QMC Telecom, LLC, a wireless infrastructure provider. Prior to that he was the President and Co-founder of VIU Media until the sale of the company to Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ:LAMR) in 2006. At the time of the sale, VIU Media was Puerto Rico's largest locally owned outdoor advertising company.
G.J. King
G.J. is a co-founder of BK Growth and the former President of RIA in a Box, a business he acquired with Will Bressman in 2011. Over the course of ten years, Will and G.J. transformed the business into a recurring revenue, software-as-a-service company, and grew both revenues and profits significantly. In 2021, RIA in a Box was acquired by ComplySci.
Stan McChrystal
A retired four-star general, Stan is the former commander of US and International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) Afghanistan and the former commander of the nation’s premier military counter-terrorism force, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). He is the current CEO and Chairmain of the McChrystal Group, a strategy and leadership consultancy.
Ramon Lecuona Torras
Ramon is a professor of business administration in Tuck’s strategy group. He earned his PhD in business administration at the London Business School and a Masters of Public Policy at Harvard University. Professor Lecuona has been part of the founding team of multiple start-ups and serves as an adviser for senior leaders of multinational companies and governmental agencies.