Ezra S. Field
Managing Director
efield@roarkcapital.com
(404) 591-3337
Field serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Roark portfolio companies Cybercore, Pet Valu and Peachtree Business Products.
Prior to joining Roark, Field was a Managing Director at ACI Capital, a middle market private equity firm with approximately $500 million under management, where he played a lead role in all aspects of the firm’s investing activities. During his tenure at ACI Capital, the firm invested successfully in several franchise businesses, including Jenny Craig and Qdoba Restaurants, as well as in other sectors including direct selling and marketing, business services, basic manufacturing and energy. Field played a lead role in the take-private and subsequent turnaround and resale of Jenny Craig, which earned investors over an 80% internal rate of return and 11.6x their invested capital. Field is a former Director of Jenny Craig, Accent Energy and Excel Polymers. He is currently a Director of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation, the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, and the Atlanta Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. He is also a member of Business Executives for National Security, and was previously an Adjunct Professor at Pace Law School, where he taught Mergers & Acquisitions.
Prior to joining ACI Capital in 2001, Field was an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, including co-founding Teachscape, a leading in-service provider of teacher training to the public education market, and developing, in conjunction with a major bank, the first structure enabling private equity fund of funds to be set up as registered investment companies. From 1998 to 1999, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Ralph K. Winter, then Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Field received a B.A. (Honors) from Wesleyan University, a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. At Columbia, Field was Senior Review and Essay Editor of and published in the Columbia Law Review, received a John M. Olin Law and Economics fellowship, was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Society.
