Mark Huyoung

Mark is focused on the global growth and health of NorthWind Partners, a highly active executive advisory at the intersection of mid-market Private Equity, Technology, and Tech-Enabled Industrials, Business Services, and Healthcare. As an experienced investor across multiple sectors and an active limited partner, Mark is also responsible for oversight of capital deployment for NorthWind Investments, an entity created to invest/co-invest with the financial sponsor clients of NorthWind Partners for optimal long-term alignment.

Mark advises select clients on critical board and leadership issues and frequently partners with investors, ranging from growth-stage VC to large buyout, to drive value creation through the assessment and subsequent development or enhancement of boards and C-Suite leadership within platforms. Having developed the effective evaluative frameworks embedded in NorthWind’s Absolute Alignment™ Process, Mark is deeply committed to ensuring that the firm focuses on producing lasting, positive outcomes for clients that far outpace the top percentile of global competitors. He has successfully led and completed over 600 engagements during his career and provides counsel on a range of topics including pre-acquisition evaluation, succession planning, leadership development, and organizational assessment/ integration/ restructuring. His passion over the past decade has been to mentor and develop search advisors who repeatedly earn the trust of clients and build successful, sustainable relationships and practices.

Prior to founding NorthWind, Mark helped establish a top-ten healthcare executive advisory as well as the technology and industrial practices of a global executive search firm. Mark previously held management roles in corporate strategy with a publicly traded media company and corporate development with a VC-backed software company.

Mark has been named one of the top GovCon recruiters by ExecutiveBiz and most influential executives in Tennessee by Business TN. He is a member of ACG and has published articles related to board diversity, the Csuite, succession planning, productivity/retention, and more. He holds a degree in business & economics from Wheaton College and serves on the advisory board for a globally-focused industrials management consulting firm, a digital media company, and a non-profit organization supporting children & orphans in Central Asia.