Bio

Dale Okonow is a Senior Partner of The Watermill Group. He is involved in the day-to-day operations of the firm, including oversight of financial and operational functions, the negotiation and financing of acquisitions, and oversight and divestitures of portfolio companies. Dale returned to the Watermill Group in 2009. From 2001 to 2007, Dale was a Partner, President and Chief Operating Officer of Sawyer Realty Holdings, LLC, a leading privately-held, fully-integrated US multifamily real estate investment and management firm based in Needham, MA and College Park, MD. Prior to joining Sawyer, Dale served as General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer of HMK Enterprises, Inc. from 1988 to 1991, and then Managing Partner of Watermill Ventures from 1991 to 2001. Prior to joining HMK Enterprises, Inc., Dale was a practicing attorney with the law firm of Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City, where he worked as a corporate lawyer primarily in the area of mergers and acquisitions and related financing. Dale serves on the Board of Trustees and Strategic Planning Committee of the Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Greater Boston where he founded the Parkinson’s Family Support Program at that social services agency. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Development Committee of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston (CJP) and served as the co-chair of the 2012 CJP Annual Campaign, a member of the Board of Advisors of Our Generation Speaks, an organization that fosters cooperation and relationship-building between Palestinians and Israelis through start-up business ventures, and the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Friends of Yemin Orde Youth Village, which is located in northern Israel. He received a B.S. (with distinction) from Cornell University in 1978, and a J.D. (magna cum laude) and M.B.A. from Cornell University in 1983. An avid Red Sox, Celtics and Patriots fan, Dale and his wife Marilyn live in Needham, MA, and have two adult children.