Len Cuoco
Operator, owner, and operating partner with leadership experience across packaging, manufacturing, specialty foods, restaurants, and middle-market services. Engagements have spanned growth, turnaround, acquisition, recapitalization, ownership transition, and operational transformation.
Selected references underscore the operating posture: principal-level operating experience inside Bay Cities, General Container, Corrugated Synergies International, and Costello Brothers in packaging; multi-unit restaurant and franchise engagements including Burger King, IHOP, Del Taco, and Palenque Group; and an acquisition of a distressed 11-unit restaurant chain where Len served as both President and equity participant.
Engagements have included recovering and restoring value for principals such as Tomio Taki (co-founder of Donna Karan, former Chairman of Anne Klein) and Joe Taub (co-founder of ADP), and advisory work for AIG.
- Pacific Performance Group — the strategic platform
- Donato Capital Partners — capital and ownership
- North American Corrugated — packaging operating platform
- Potenza Food Group — food & multi-unit operating platform
California CPA (inactive). B.S. in Accounting, Monmouth University. Dual U.S. and Italian citizen. Based in Pasadena, California.