Bio
Mark brings to Tuck 15 years of private equity experience, with a focus on micro-cap investing. He is cofounder of Newbury Franklin, a holding company that acquires and builds recurring revenue businesses with an extremely long-term orientation. He ia also the former chairman and CEO of Little Sprouts, a Massachusetts-based provider of early education centers, which he led the acquisition of in 2012 via a search fund. Under Mark’s six-year tenure as CEO, Little Sprouts became the largest private preschool company in New England; it now operates five brands across multiple states. Mark is an active investor and serves on several private company boards in the search-fund ecosystem. He was previously faculty associate in the Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, where he continues to advise and mentor on the subject of Entrepreneurship through Acquisition. Earlier in his career, Mark was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, first in New York and later in Chicago. He subsequently worked as a private equity investor with Chicago Growth Partners, a middle-market buyout fund.
Selected Publications
With A.J. Wasserstein, “A New Search Fund CEO’s Checklist for Quickly Understanding and Leading a Business” Yale School of Management, 2022
With D. Rellaford, T. Tracey, T. Higgins and A.J. Wasserstein, “On the Nature of CEO Communication Patterns in a Small Business” Yale School of Management, 2022
With A.J. Wasserstein, C. Gila and J. Pananos, “Why MBA Students Do Not Pursue Entrepreneurship through Acquisition” Yale School of Management, 2022
With L. Braun, J. Rilling, R. Robinson and A.J. Wasserstein, “On the Nature of Seller Selection in a Search Fund Project” Yale School of Management, 2021
With J. N. Golden and A.J. Wasserstein, “On the Nature of Programmatic Acquisition Strategies” Yale School of Management, 2021
With J. N. Golden, A.J. Wasserstein and Alex de Pfyffer, “On the Nature of Programmatic Acquisition Strategies: Why Things Go Awry” Yale School of Management, 2021