Michael Marks

Founding Partner at Riverwood Capital Management LP

Michael Marks

Michael Marks

Founding Partner at Riverwood Capital Management LP

Overview
Career Highlights

Riverwood Solutions, Inc.
Ironwood Management LLC
Riverwood Capital LP

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3631

Number of Boards

38

Birthday

1951

Age

67
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Thomas Smach

Founding Partner at Riverwood Capital LLC

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Nicholas Brathwaite

Founding Partner at Riverwood Capital Management LP

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Chris Varelas

Founding Partner at Riverwood Capital Management LP

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Jeff Parks

Founding Partner at Riverwood Capital Management LP

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Francisco Alvarez-Demalde

Founder & General Partner at Riverwood Capital Management LP

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James A. Davidson

Co-Founder at Silver Lake Management Co. LLC

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Lip-Bu Tan

Chief Executive Officer at Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

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Paal Kibsgaard

Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer at Schlumberger Ltd.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Gary Gysin

President & Chief Executive Officer at Liquid Robotics, Inc.

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Roger Hine

Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer at Liquid Robotics, Inc.

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Michael Marks
Founding Partner at Riverwood Capital Management LP
Education
MBA
Class of 1977
Harvard University - Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The school offers a large full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive education programs. It owns Harvard Business School Publishing, which publishes business books, leadership articles, online management tools for corporate learning, case studies, and the monthly Harvard Business Review.

M.A.
Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students in addition to white males. Oberlin is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium.

Career History
Co-Founder
2015 - Current
Katerra, Inc.

Katerra, Inc. provides buildings design and project management services. Its services include architecture and engineering, interior design, materials supply, construction management, general contracting and staffing, and renovation services. The firm offers products including structural building components, mass timber, kitchen & bath cabinets and finish items including doors & door hardware, electrical finishes, lighting-LED lamps, cladding, millwork & trim and cladding. The company was founded by Michael E. Marks, James A. Davidson and Fritz H. Wolff in 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Executive Managing Director
2013 - Current
Walden Riverwood Ventures

WRV invests in early stage companies located in North America, Israel, India, and Greater China. The firm focuses on technology, semiconductor, hardware, software and service sectors. Their investment size ranges from USD 5million to USD 25million.

Founding Partner
2008 - Current
Riverwood Capital Management LP

Riverwood invests in high growth technology companies in need of financial and intellectual capital on a global scale. The firm invests across the technology landscape, from electronic systems and components to software and other technology industries. They provides financing for growth equity, divisional carve-outs, industry consolidations, and buyout transactions. The typical investment size ranges from $25-$125 million. The firm has a flexible approach, investing in both control and structured minority positions.

Boards & Committees
Member, Board of Directors
2015 - Current
H2O.ai, Inc.

H2O.ai, Inc. provides open source machine learning platform. The firm offers H2O, an open source predictive analytics platform for data scientists, application developers, and business analysts who need in-memory machine learning for smarter applications. The company was founded by Srisatish Ambati and Cliff Click in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Chairman of the Board
2015 - Current
Katerra, Inc.

Katerra, Inc. provides buildings design and project management services. Its services include architecture and engineering, interior design, materials supply, construction management, general contracting and staffing, and renovation services. The firm offers products including structural building components, mass timber, kitchen & bath cabinets and finish items including doors & door hardware, electrical finishes, lighting-LED lamps, cladding, millwork & trim and cladding. The company was founded by Michael E. Marks, James A. Davidson and Fritz H. Wolff in 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Independent Director
2005 - Current
Schlumberger Ltd.

Corporate profile: Schlumberger Knowledge, technical innovation and teamwork are at the center of who we are. For more than 80 years, we have focused on leveraging these assets to deliver solutions that improve customer performance. Today, our real-time technology services and solutions enable customers to translate acquired data into useful information, then transform this information into knowledge for improved decision making-anytime, anywhere. Harnessing information technology in this way offers enormous opportunities to enhance efficiency and productivity. This is a quantum leap from providing traditional 'just-in-case' information to delivering 'just-in-time' knowledge that meets the changing needs of our customers

Director
Prior - 2014
The V Foundation for Cancer Research

Jim Valvano, legendary NC State basketball coach and ESPN announcer, established The V Foundation for Cancer Research in 1993 with ESPN. Its goal is to help find cures for cancer by funding cancer research. It seeks to accomplish this through fundraising, philanthropy, advocacy and education. The Foundation is overseen by a nationally focused volunteer board of directors and is active in all 50 states. The Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board, comprised of an internationally recognized group of research physicians, reviews grant proposals, selects research projects to support and continues to identify new and alternative ways to become a leader in the field of cancer research.

Member, Board of Trustees
2011 - Prior
The Juilliard School

The Juilliard School operates as an art school. It provides artistic education for musicians, dancers, and actors. The company was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Trustee
Prior
National Parks Conservation Association

The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) is the only independent, membership organization devoted exclusively to advocacy on behalf of the National Parks System. Its mission is "to protect and enhance America's National Park System for present and future generations."
Political Donations
$400
2010
Tom Campbell

Managing Director at Berkeley Research Group LLC

$1,000
2009
Randolph Altschuler

Co-Founder at Xometry, Inc.

$28.5K
2008
Barack Obama

Former President of United States

Transactions
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RWCP Holdings LP raised money in a private placement transaction

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Calix, Inc. issued Common Stock

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WALDEN RIVERWOOD VENTURES, L.P. raised money in a private placement transaction

Investments
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Globality, Inc.

Globality, Inc. creates a new ecosystem for global trade, enabling small and midsize companies. Its services include consulting, legal and marketing. The company was founded by Joel Z. Hyatt and Lior Delgo in 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

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IQLECT Software Solutions Pvt Ltd.

IQLECT Software Solutions Pvt Ltd. provides software services. It develops a hardware-software converged platform to provide data insights in real time. The firm offers data centers, database, e-commerce, fin-tech, and log analysis solutions. The company was founded by Sachin Sinha in 2012 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

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Katerra, Inc.

Katerra, Inc. provides buildings design and project management services. Its services include architecture and engineering, interior design, materials supply, construction management, general contracting and staffing, and renovation services. The firm offers products including structural building components, mass timber, kitchen & bath cabinets and finish items including doors & door hardware, electrical finishes, lighting-LED lamps, cladding, millwork & trim and cladding. The company was founded by Michael E. Marks, James A. Davidson and Fritz H. Wolff in 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

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Other Affiliations

Michael Marks is affiliated with Katerra, Inc., Walden Riverwood Ventures, Riverwood Capital Management LP, Riverwood Capital LLC, Ironwood Management LLC, Riverwood Capital LP, WALDEN RIVERWOOD VENTURES, L.P., Tesla, Inc., Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP, Flex Ltd., Flextronics Corp., Riverwood Solutions, Inc., Liquid Robotics, Inc., RWCP Holdings LP, Calix, Inc., H2O.ai, Inc., Katerra, Inc., Schlumberger Ltd., Berkeley Lights, Inc., Berkeley Lighting Co., Inc., Globant SA, GoPro, Inc., Calix, Inc., Avago Technologies Ltd., Sun Microsystems, Inc., Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP, Crocs Inc., SanDisk Corp., KLA-Tencor Corp., Flextronics Corp., Flex Ltd., Aricent, Inc., Sun Microsystems Ltd., Lake Region Medical, Inc., Virtual Instruments Corp., Moelis & Company LLC, Fish Six Restaurant Corp., Sistemas Globales SA, Bossa Nova Robotics, Inc., Moelis & Co., Quirky, Inc., Lolli & Pops, Inc., RWCP Holdings LP, WALDEN RIVERWOOD VENTURES, L.P., Riverwood Capital Partners II (Parallel - B) LP, Riverwood Capital Partners II LP, Riverwood Capital Partners LP, Riverwood Capital LP, iFly, The V Foundation for Cancer Research, The Juilliard School, National Parks Conservation Association, Liquid Robotics, Inc.

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