About Us
Strategy, execution, and the technology to support it.
Oakfern Partners combines top-tier consulting backgrounds with operator experience in acquiring, scaling, and exiting businesses, and with engineering leadership from building and running technology companies. We help owner-operators fix what is slowing the business down, put modern systems and practical AI to work, and realize the full value of what they have built.
Founding Partners
The people you’ll work with.
Colby Winegar
- Founding Partner
Colby built his strategic instincts at McKinsey and Harvard Business School, then spent two decades applying them as an operator. He went on to found and lead two companies to successful exits, most recently as CEO.
Bryan Mangelson
- Founding Partner
Bryan brings strategic operational expertise honed during his time at BCG and scaling small businesses. He builds scalable operating systems and has successfully executed the buying and selling of multiple small businesses.
Jacob Willoughby
- Founding Partner
Jacob combines deep technical expertise with proven engineering leadership, having built high-performance teams as CTO at Storj and CrowdStorage. He architects robust foundations and drives operational innovation through strategic AI implementation.
Work with us.
If you are running a business you expect to sell in the next one to five years, there is usually more value on the table than owners realize. Let’s talk about how we can help you unlock it.