Our partners

Operators, investors, and engineers.

The partners you meet in the first conversation are the partners who sit on your board and work alongside your team after closing.

Partner

Joel Willett

Joel has sat on both sides of a lower-middle-market deal: sourcing, structuring, and negotiating it, then owning the P&L afterwards. He was CEO of a $65M, 200-person government software and services company backed by a public investment firm, where he ran integration and the 100-day plan, built the executive team and finance organization, led the first independent audit, and drove company-wide AI adoption. As Principal and Operating Partner at a lower-middle-market private equity firm, he served as CEO of a 355-person defense engineering services business and President of a 120-person manufacturer. He leads AI transformation work for large private equity sponsors, pricing EBITDA opportunity before a deal is signed. Earlier, he spent five years at the CIA, including as a duty officer in the White House Situation Room. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army. A Kentucky native, Joel graduated from the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky, and received his MBA from the University of Chicago.

Partner

Campbell Marshall

Campbell has run global operations for frontier technology companies and invested from inside a $3B fund. He was most recently Chief Operating Officer of a space-optical communications company serving defense and telecommunications customers, and before that an executive at a satellite communications company, where he built the government and military business from inception. He invested on the team of the Xerion Fund, a special-situations fund of more than $3B within Perella Weinberg Partners Asset Management. Earlier he was a counterterrorism operations officer in the CIA’s National Clandestine Service and worked for the U.S. Trade Representative and the Deputy Secretary of State on major trade agreements.

Partner

Zak Amchislavsky

Zak led AI engineering teams at Meta as a Security Engineering Manager, responsible for defending the platform’s data against continuous adversarial attack. That discipline, covering adversarial machine learning, data integrity, abuse and error detection, is what keeps portfolio AI systems dependable once they run unattended, with controls a board can rely on. Earlier, as CISO of a SaaS start-up, he made security and compliance a selling point with commercial and government buyers, then led a go-to-market refresh that added new use cases and partnerships and drove 50% annual revenue growth.

Engineering

The build team

Expert developers provide the build capacity behind each transformation and are billed to portfolio companies at cost. Adding a company adds work for engineers we already manage, not a new consulting contract.

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