Mark Hauser Bio

Mark Hauser is the Founder and a Managing Partner of Tamarix Capital Partners. Mark has over 30 years of experience in private equity, private credit, asset management, and investment banking. He founded the Tamarix Group in 1993 as an investment firm dedicated to providing flexible financing solutions to lower-middle-market companies led by U.S. and non-U.S. family offices. Mark was the founding partner of Tamarix Equity Partners, L.P., the group’s most recent private equity fund. He also co-founded Swat Equity Partners, L.P., a consumer-focused venture fund. Previously, Mark was a Senior managing director at OFS Capital Management and a member of its investment and executive committees. He was responsible for middle-market lending, having founded the firm’s SBIC Fund through OFS Capital Corporation. Prior to joining OFS Capital Management in 2010, Mark worked at companies such as Sandell Asset Management—an international multi-strategy alternative asset manager, where he founded and was global head of the firm’s private equity practice, FdG Associates, a New York-based middle-market private equity fund focused on investing in family-owned businesses—and Ocean Capital Corporation, a private international investment banking firm. Mark has participated on numerous private and public Boards of Directors and philanthropic organizations. He is a member of the Economic Club of NY and YPO/WPO. Mr. Hauser holds a Master of Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Law from Sydney University.