Nick Orum
President & CIO
Joined Gryphon: 1995
Industry Group: Gryphon Management
Currently serves on Gryphon Company Boards: Nick oversees all new investment activities at Gryphon, working closely across the Business Services, Consumer, Healthcare, Industrial Growth, and Software teams as they identify new opportunities, analyze investment opportunities and conduct due diligence. Nick has led or co-led investments in over 20 Gryphon platform companies which in turn have completed over 50 add-on acquisitions. In addition to the board seats listed above, Nick is also a former Chairman or Director of AlliedBarton Security, CORA Health Services, Consolidated Fire Protection, DLC, Delta Education, ECG Management Consultants, FieldRoutes, Flagstone Foods, Miller Heiman, NurseFinders, Ob Hospitalist Group, Staffing Now, SynteractHCR, Trinity Consultants, TrustHouse, and Update Legal. Nick lives with his family in San Francisco.
AQUA Dermatology (FKA Water’s Edge Dermatology)
Heartland Veterinary Partners
LEARN Behavioral
Meazure Learning
Ncontracts
Smile Brands
- Oak Hill Partners, Principal Investor – responsible for sourcing, analyzing, executing, and monitoring private equity investments. Assisted R. David Andrews in leading Oak Hill’s investment in CapStar Hotel Company. Served as a Director of CapStar Hotel Company and The Berton Company. Assisted with investments in Specialty Foods Corporation and United Building Materials.
- Merrill Lynch, High Yield Finance Group – involved in financings for various leveraged acquisitions and corporate clients.
B.A., Quantitative Economics, Stanford University
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