Leadership
Our Partners have led or participated in 34 investments representing over $395 million of invested capital and have provided advisory services on hundreds of transactions. With experience in a broad range of industries, ORG's Partners have served as an Executive or Board Member with more than 30 companies.
- Mark Green, CHAIRMAN | READ BIO »
Mark is the Executive Chairman of Owner Resource Group. He is also a Director of Hilltop Holdings Inc. Over his career, Mark has advised dozens of clients, including Metropolitan Life, Colgate, GE, PepsiCo, and Trinity Industries on capital raising, M&A, divestitures, corporate restructurings, and the like.
He formerly served as Vice Chairman of the Financial Institutions and Governments Group in investment banking at JP Morgan Chase, where he was an integral part of global strategic planning.
Prior to joining JP Morgan Chase, Mark was involved in the start-up of eight companies and served on their boards, including Affordable Residential Communities Inc., the predecessor company to Hilltop Holdings Inc.
From 1973 to 1992, Mr. Green served in various capacities at Goldman, Sachs & Co, including leading their product development efforts. He was a General Partner of the company and co-head of the Financial Services Industry Group at the time of his retirement in 1992.
Mark received his M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University and his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.
- Jon Gormin, MANAGING DIRECTOR | READ BIO »
Jon is a Managing Director with Owner Resource Group. Over his 17 years in corporate finance and private equity, he has been involved with more than 45 businesses in a wide range of industries including financial services, distribution, retail, manufacturing, media, telecommunications and utilities. Jon has also served as an officer (including both interim CEO and CFO) or a Board Member for 15 companies. Over the course of Jon's career, he has led or been involved with 19 private equity transactions and has been responsible for all aspects of private equity investing.
Prior to Owner Resource Group, Jon was a Partner, for almost a decade, at two New York-based private equity and venture capital firms. Over this time, Jon participated in a wide range of private equity transactions ranging from start-up technology companies to large, established insurance companies. Jon began his career working for Coopers & Lybrand, LLP in their Business Assurance and Financial Advisory Services practices.
Jon received his M.B.A. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business with honors and his B.S. in Accounting from Lehigh University.
- Lee Walker, MANAGING DIRECTOR | READ BIO »
Lee is a Managing Director with Owner Resource Group. He is also a Managing Director at HF Interests, a family office. Over the course of his career, Lee has been involved with 25 private equity transactions across a wide range of industries including engineering intensive manufacturing, value-added distribution and business services. He has also participated in the execution of numerous lead managed financing and advisory investment banking transactions totaling approximately $9.5 billion, including initial public offerings, convertible debt offerings, high yield debt offerings and private placements. He has worked with companies in diverse industries including electronics, energy, financial services, hardware and software, semiconductors, specialty manufacturing and telecommunications.
Lee previously worked for a New York-based private equity firm. He began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley & Co. both in New York City and Tokyo.
Lee received his M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and his B.A. from Duke University.
- Will Burnett, MANAGING DIRECTOR | READ BIO »
Will is a Managing Director with Owner Resource Group. Over his career in private equity and management consulting, he has advised more than 25 businesses, from family owned manufacturing and distribution companies to Fortune 500 retail, pharmaceutical, and transportation companies on strategic, financial, sales and marketing, and operational matters. He came to Owner Resource Group from Harris Preston and Partners, a private equity investment firm, where he evaluated over $200 million of transactions.
Will was previously a management consultant with a strategy consulting firm in New York City and an operations consultancy in Dallas. As a consultant, he helped shape the marketing strategy for a Fortune 100 healthcare company, advised over 20 international operating units of a global biopharmaceutical company on new product launch plans, and directed various components of a Fortune 500 company's supply chain operation, netting his client annual procurement savings in the tens of millions of dollars. Will began his career with Accenture (previously Andersen Consulting) in their Client Financial Management practice.
Will received his M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and his B.B.A. in finance from the University of Texas at Austin.