Michael Doak
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER & CO-CHAIR
Michael Doak is Chief Executive Officer, Managing Partner and Co-Chair of Griffin Highline. Prior to founding Griffin Highline, Mr. Doak served in various leadership roles at entities associated with RenaissanceRe, a global provider of reinsurance and insurance services, since June 2010, most recently as President of RenaissanceRe Ventures U.S. LLC and the portfolio manager of the direct investments equity portfolio.
Mr. Doak serves on the Board of Directors of The Woodlands Financial Group (NASDAQ: TWFG) and on the Board of Managers of Open Road Ultimate Holdings LLC and Inness Ultimate Holdings LLC. He previously served on the boards of Falcon Risk Holdings LLC, Trupanion, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRUP), Tower Hill Insurance Group and DaVinci Reinsurance Ltd.
Prior to RenaissanceRe, Mr. Doak was an investment banker in the Financial Institutions Group at Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC. He received a BA from the University of Virginia and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Robert Alpert
CO-CHAIR
Robert Alpert is a Founding Partner and the Co-Chairman of Griffin Highline. He is also the co-founder and principal of 210 Capital, LLC. He currently serves as a director of P10, Inc. (NYSE: PX). He formerly served as Co-CEO and Chairman of the Board of P10, Inc. Mr. Alpert is the Chairman of the Board of Crossroads Impact Corp. and a director of Elah Holdings, lnc. (OTC: ELLH). Mr. Alpert is also Chairman of the Board of Incline Insurance Group, LLC, a national property, and casualty insurance company and a managing member of Merfax Financial Group, LLC, an investment fund and shareholder of Incline Insurance Group.
Mr. Alpert was formerly the CEO of Globalscape, Inc. (NYSE: GSB) a software developer offering secure enterprise FTP solutions. Before founding 210 Capital, Mr. Alpert was the founder and portfolio manager of Atlas Capital Management, L.P.
Mr. Alpert received a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
William Cornog
BOARD MEMBER
William Cornog serves on the Board of Managers of Griffin Highline. Until 2022, he was the Global Head of KKR Capstone, which he joined in 2002. Mr. Cornog chaired KKR’s Americas, EMEA, APAC, Infrastructure and TMT Growth Portfolio Management Committees, while also serving as a member of the Investment & Distribution and Valuation Committees.
He has extensive operational experience across a broad range of geographies and industries. Prior to joining KKR Capstone, Mr. Cornog was with Williams Communications Group as the senior vice president and general manager of network services. Prior to Williams, he was a partner at The Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Cornog has also worked in direct marketing with Age Wave Communications and in marketing and sales positions with SmithKline Beckman.
In addition to Griffin Highline, Mr. Cornog sits on the board of BrightView (NYSE: BV), Livewire (NYSE: LVWR) and Blue Crow Sports Group. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of The Knight Campus at the University of Oregon.
Mr. Cornog earned a BA from Stanford University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Bryan Dalton
BOARD MEMBER
Bryan Dalton serves on the Board of Managers of Griffin Highline. Mr. Dalton has served in various leadership roles at entities associated with RenaissanceRe since 2002, most recently as Senior Vice President and the Chief Underwriting Officer - Property. He has nearly two decades of underwriting experience.
Mr. Dalton was the former Active Underwriter for Syndicate 1458 and Chief Underwriting Officer of Europe before his transition to Chief Underwriting Officer - Property. Previously, Mr. Dalton managed the International Property Catastrophe portfolio for RenaissanceRe, including the underwriting of retrocessional and primary reinsurance transactions, based in Bermuda. Mr. Dalton began his career with RennaissanceRe in Dublin as a catastrophe analyst.
Mr. Dalton holds a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester and a Masters in Management Science from University College Dublin.
Peter Hearn
BOARD MEMBER
Peter Hearn serves on the Board of Managers of Griffin Highline. Throughout nearly four decades in the reinsurance industry, Peter has served in a number of senior leadership roles. He was Vice Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, and a member of the Marsh & McLennan Companies Executive Committee from 2015 – 2021. Most recently, he was Global Chairman of Willis Re from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, Peter served as the company’s Global CEO from 2005 to 2011, during which time he was also a member of the Willis Group Executive Committee. Mr. Hearn began his reinsurance career in 1978 with Willis Faber and Dumas.
Mr. Hearn holds a BA in history and political science from Lake Forest College.
Kent McGaughy
BOARD MEMBER
Kent McGaughy serves on the Board of Managers of Griffin Highline. Mr. McGaughy is the founding shareholder of CPMG, Inc., a private investment firm. Prior to joining CPMG’s predecessor, Cardinal Investment Company, Inc., in 1997, Mr. McGaughy worked at Simmons & Company International. In addition to serving as a partner of CPMG, Inc., Mr. McGaughy is a Director of Instil Bio, Inc. (NSDQ: TIL). He also serves as a director of various private companies.
Mr. McGaughy holds a BA from The University of Texas at Austin and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Lauren Roberge
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Lauren Roberge is a Managing Director and part of the investment team at Griffin Highline.
Ms. Roberge has six years of direct private equity experience across a variety of industries and geographies. Her main responsibilities have included the origination, due diligence, transaction structuring, execution and management of portfolio company investments. She has led the underwriting and post-close support of platform roll-up strategies, portfolio company mergers and integrations and multiple exit processes.
Ms. Roberge serves on the Board of Managers of Open Road Ultimate Holdings LLC and Inness Ultimate Holdings LLC. She previously served on the board of Falcon Risk Holdings LLC. She was formerly a Vice President and member of the Portfolio Management team at Hastings Equity Partners. Previously, she served as a member of the investment teams at both Lime Rock Resources and HitecVision. She started her career as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, where she was involved in a variety of both M&A and capital raising transactions.
Ms. Roberge received a BBA in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Tom Sietsema
DIRECTOR
Tom Sietsema is a Director and a member of the portfolio operations team at Griffin Highline.
Mr. Sietsema has investment banking, corporate development and portfolio operations experience. He has served as both CFO and COO of multiple PE-backed companies. Prior to his operating roles, Mr. Sietsema worked at RenaissanceRe, a global provider of reinsurance and insurance services. At RenaissanceRe, he worked on corporate development, the direct investments portfolio and supporting the senior team responsible for managing over $10Bn of alternative reinsurance capital.
Mr. Sietsema began his career in finance at Credit Suisse in the Financial Institutions Group focused on insurance. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, he was a member of the United States Marine Corps where he served as a civil affairs specialist and foreign military advisor in Afghanistan.
Mr. Sietsema received a BA in Political Science from Columbia University.
Yunhua Ge
CONTROLLER
Yunhua Ge is a Controller at Griffin Highline.
Mrs. Ge has experience with private equity funds, hybrid hedge funds and fund-of-funds. She also has experience working complicated fund structures and high transaction volumes. Prior to joining Griffin Highline, Mrs. Ge served as a Director at Gen II Fund Services, Senior Fund Controller at MUFG Capital Analytics. She began her career as an Analyst at Fortress Investment Group.
Ms. Ge received a BC in Accounting from University of Southern Queensland and MS in Accounting from Golden Gate University.
Ben Moner
ASSOCIATE
Ben Moner is an Associate and part of the investment team at Griffin Highline.
He assists with the origination, due diligence, transaction structuring, execution and management of portfolio company investments. Before joining Griffin Highline as an Analyst, Mr. Moner began his career in management consulting at Infosys Consulting, where he served clients in the finance and insurance industries.
Mr. Moner received a BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University.
Ben Caton
ANALYST