Our Team
Jeff Breazeale
Chairman
Jeff developed a range of strategic and operational skills over thirty years, which allowed him to grow multiple businesses with exceptional results. Today, he invests time and capital in growth-oriented teams, businesses and investments, working alongside entrepreneurs and their associates to develop life and business skills that help them achieve their ambitions.
Starting with a humbling turnaround of a manufacturing business, to financially backing and leading a 6-month-old consumer brand that ignited a category and grew 600x, to acquisition of his third-generation family business, to the startup of a logistics business and two consumer brands, Jeff has real-world experience in many phases and types of entrepreneurial operations. More important, his focus over the years gravitated to helping people understand their unique talents and weaknesses, in order to create teams and systems that can operate most effectively.
Jeff was formerly a principal with the Boston Consulting Group, where he was a member of the Industrial Goods, Consumer Goods and Corporate Development practices. He worked primarily for Fortune 100 companies on business strategy, growth and operations improvement.
Jeff earned an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He and Tracey have raised 4 children in Minnetonka Beach MN. He is active in the Young President’s Organization (YPO) and in his local government. His interests outside work and family include rowing and playing guitar.
Scott Zimmerman
Operating Partner
Scott helps develop leaders’ abilities to see through complexity, to reach beyond the boundaries of what they believe is possible, to have the courage to get outside their comfort zones, and to develop the discipline to deliver on promises. His approach actively fuses development within daily work, supporting leaders in deploying more powerful choices to accelerate business outcomes.
Scott’s leadership capabilities and business acumen were developed at General Electric, one of Fortune's Most Admired Companies. He rose from being an individual contributor to join the ranks of the top 1%, including winning the GE Chairman’s Imagination Breakthrough award. Following GE, his subsequent technology president & CEO roles saw him accelerate organizational scaling by tapping the latent potential in culture, leadership, and team operations to the tune of nearly $1B in value creation. In each setting, he reshaped the organization and reimagined their solutions, creating companies more capable of delivering exceptional experiences for customers.
He earned his degree from the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis and has held board and strategic advisory roles for many national, regional, and local organizations, including the Young Presidents’ Organization. In 2016, Scott was recognized with Young President Organization “Best of the best” honor for his work transforming CEO forum practices, and in 2019, YPO asked Scott to create frameworks and practices to help CEOs scale trust and execution in their organizations.
Angela Hamilton
Talent Operating Partner
Angela is the Talent Operating Partner for the Breazeale Group, working directly with the Chairman and portfolio companies. She helps translate growth priorities into organizational capability, leadership decisions, and action. Angela brings 20+ years of partnering with CEOs, boards, and executive teams to build, transform, and scale organizations. She combines the strategic perspective of a senior advisor with the hands-on bias for action of an operator.
Her career spans P&L leadership, sales and marketing, executive search and talent consulting, and PE/VC advisory across early-stage, middle market, and Fortune 500 companies. Angela is known for quickly understanding a business, bringing structure to ambiguity, and personally driving high-priority initiatives from idea through execution.
Angela brings meaningful industry experience. She spent five years at Cargill, where she held a VP role in the Food Ingredients business and led global talent initiatives across a highly complex agricultural enterprise. She subsequently spent eight years at Korn Ferry, where she was a Senior Client Partner, advising Fortune 500 companies. Her foundation is commercial, starting her career at Estee Lauder Companies in Sales and Marketing.
Angela graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management, Marketing, and Human Resources. She also served on the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Business Alumni Board. Her interests include boating, running, yoga, and Big Ten college sports with her family.