DAVID J. HOOK

Having been a private equity investor since 1982, Mr. Hook has been a General Partner in firms with approximately $165 million under management, has invested in 50 privately held companies of which 14 have completed their IPOs and 5 have been acquired for over $165 million each.

These investments include Applied Digital Access (ADAX), Adaptive Solutions (ADSO), Clarify (CLFY), Etec Systems (ETEC), Genta (GNTA), Harmonic (HLIT), IC Works (Cypress Semiconductor), LGC Wireless (ADC), NetSolve (NTSL), Power Integrations (POWI), Promatory Communications (Nortel Networks), Qpass (AMDOCS), Spatial Wireless (Alcatel), Triquint Semiconductor (TQNT), VidaMed (VIDA), Vitesse Semiconductor (VTSS), and Volterra Semiconductor (VLTR). In addition, he has investments in several privately held companies such as Astute Networks, Inphi, Teranetics and Eltek Valere.

Mr. Hook has also served as director on the boards of several portfolio companies. He is a member of the investment committee of Genesis Campus, a Dallas-based venture capital firm. Mr. Hook initially gained his experience by living and investing in California’s Silicon Valley, working with Larry Mohr at Mohr, Davidow Ventures. In 1984, he co-founded the first Hook Partners Fund. He has been a General Partner in seven Hook-related venture capital partnerships. Moving to Dallas in 1988, he participated in the early stages of the Telecom Corridor. Prior to Mr. Hook’s Silicon Valley years, he was an associate with the venture capital firm Carolina Capital Corporation where he assisted the managing partner in the management of this SBIC.

He holds a BA degree in Accounting from Wittenberg University. Mr. Hook has been a guest lecturer to the MBA entrepreneurial students at Southern Methodist University and has served on the Steering Committee of the Southwest Venture Forum and the DFW Private Equity Forum.

MATT DENEGRE

Over the past twelve years, Mr. Denegre has worked with various companies and advisory firms to help grow and manage middle market companies. Currently as a Director, Mr. Denegre is responsible for deal sourcing, managing portfolio companies and conducting due diligence.

Prior to joining Baymark Partners, Mr. Denegre worked at Montgomery Coscia Greilich in the Transaction Services Group.  While there, he focused on buy side financial due diligence and consulting for middle market private equity firms. While in this role, Mr. Denegre worked on over 30 M&A transactions ranging from $1 million to $250 million.

Mr. Denegre began his career by starting and running his own contracting company while in college. After college, he was hired by a division of First Service Brands to be the district manager for Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts and grew the region from 10 to 18 locations. In 2008, Mr. Denegre moved to Dallas to help turnaround a large franchise operation for California Closets.  By implementing new operating systems, the business was able to survive through the recession and is now one of the largest franchises within its industry.

Mr. Denegre holds a BBA from Eastern Connecticut State University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

DUANE TUCKER

Mr. Tucker’s 18 year professional career has focused on growing and improving companies ranging from small privately held businesses to large fortune 500 companies; including the multi-billion conglomerate Bayer AG, Raytheon Corporation, and Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. While at these companies he has worked in M&A, business process improvement, IT outsourcing, business operations, enterprise risk management, audit, and security.

He earned his CPA early in his career as a practitioner in the public accounting industry working at Mayer, Hoffman, McCann, P.C. a national accounting firm where he managed various projects for both large and small privately held companies.

Mr. Tucker was a Director at Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) in the business process and information technology outsourcing industry. He was responsible for large scale projects addressing internal business process improvement, enterprise-wide IT implementations and improvement, customer facing outsourcing integration and monitoring, and internal and external audit and compliance.

Prior to joining Baymark Partners Mr. Tucker worked at Raytheon Corporation in their missile systems division (largest missile manufacturer in the world). While there he was part of their M&A strategic acquisition IT integration team where he focused on their off-sites across the U.S. for IT infrastructure, security, and business process improvement.

Mr. Tucker received his MBA (with an emphasis in Information Technology) from Avila University in Kansas City Missouri and a BS in Accounting from Rockhurst, Kansas City’s Jesuit University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds various IT related certifications including: CISSP, CISA, CISM, and GSNA.

BEN MIMMACK

Ben has worked in finance for more than 15 years and has extensive experience working in public company leadership positions.

Prior to joining Baymark Partners, Ben worked at American Airlines and, latterly, Sarcos Robotics in roles across Commercial Planning, FP&A, Treasury, and Investor Relations.

Ben has an MBA in finance and strategy from Southern Methodist University and is originally from the United Kingdom, where he worked in both the legal and banking industries.