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 Managers of The Woodlands Financial Group, 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 Co-Chairman of Griffin Highline. He is also the co-founder and principal of 210 Capital, LLC and the former Chairman and CEO of Globalscape, Inc. (NYSE: GSB). Additionally, he serves as Co-CEO and Chairman of the Board of P10 Holdings, Inc. (OTC: PIOE), an alternative asset management investment firm, Chairman of Crossroads Systems, Inc. (OTC: CRSS), a holding company focused on investing in businesses that promote economic vitality and community development, and a director of ElahHoldings, Inc. (OTC: ELLH), a company that seeks to generate long term shareholder value through the continuation of its strategy of seeking profitable acquisitions and generate increased cash flow from the utilization of its tax assets. Mr. Alpert is also the co-founder of Homebuilder Capital Advisors, LLC, a real estate specialty finance company, Chairman of Redpoint Insurance Group, LLC, a Texas property and casualty insurance company and managing member of Merfax Financial Group, LLC, which is the controlling shareholder of Incline Insurance Group, LLC, a national property and casualty insurance company.
Mr. Alpert was the founder and portfolio manager of Atlas Capital Management, L.P., a long-short strategy investment adviser, from October 1995 to September 2015. Mr. Alpert was responsible for the investments and operations of Atlas.
He received a BA from Princeton University and a MBA from Columbia University.
William Cornog
BOARD MEMBER
William Cornog serves on the Board of Managers for 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 & 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.
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 for 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 for 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 Reata Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NSDQ: RETA), Apollo Endosurgery Inc. (NSDQ: APEN), and 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 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.
William Edwards
OPERATING PARTNER
William Edwards is an Operating Partner at Griffin Highline.
Mr. Edwards brings over 20 years of operational experience across a variety of industries and geographies. He has worked as a finance professional and CFO, with both public and PE-backed company experience. His previous roles include serving as a Managing Director at Plains All American, Chief Commercial Officer of Gravity Midstream, Senior Vice President at Holly Frontier Corporation, and most recently as Chief Financial Officer at various PE-backed entities.
Prior to his role at Plains All American, Mr. Edwards worked at Simmons & Company International as an investment banking associate where he advised various companies on a range of financial and strategic matters with an emphasis on M&A advisory services. He began his career as an infantry officer in the United States Army.
Mr. Edwards received a BS in Economics with a focus in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Ben Moner
FINANCIAL ANALYST