David Hook

About David Hook

David Hook is the Managing Director at Baymark Partners. This private equity firm invests in leveraged recapitalization and management buyouts of high-growth companies, middle-market services businesses, and entrepreneurial ventures. For decades, Hook and his firm have invested in over 50 early-stage high-technology companies. Many of those start-ups have completed IPOs, and five have been sold for over $165 million each. Over the span of just 15 years, David has been instrumental in the acquisition of 60 companies.

Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Hook attended Bowling Green State University before transferring to Wittenberg University, a Lutheran-affiliated, private institution with an outstanding reputation for excellent academic standards and a dynamic student body. David graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting degree. He continues his affiliation with higher-education institutions as a guest lecturer to the MBA entrepreneurial students at Southern Methodist University.

Hook is an expert in business finance and has served on the Southwest Venture Forum Steering Committee. He is often called upon to offer advice and direction to entrepreneurial ventures to help them stay aligned with strategic operating plans and identify areas for improvement in cash flow and capital funding. David is also an active participant in the DFW Private Equity Forum. This North Texas group of private equity and venture capital investment firms provides an opportunity for collaboration and forming relationships that often result in profitable business alliances.

David Hook made a critical decision early in his career to relocate to California at a time when Silicon Valley was truly being realized. In the 1980s, companies like Atari, Apple, and Oracle were founded in this area, which is now widely accepted as the center of the computer industry.  Hook not only took up temporary residence in the Palm Desert, CA area but also made early investments and gained experience working at Mohr, Davidow Ventures. He soon co-founded the first Hook Partners Fund and has been a General Partner in seven Hook-related venture capital partnerships.