mauve capital partners' team

Coley Andrews

Coley Andrews is the Managing Member and co-founder of Pacific Lake Partners. Since co-founding Pacific Lake in 2009 with search fund pioneer Jim Southern, Coley has worked with over 150 search funds worldwide. Pacific Lake has over $250 million dedicated exclusively to search fund investing.

Coley is a board member of multiple search fund companies including, Morningside Translations, IS Logistica, FieldEdge, Inspired eLearning, Circle Surrogacy and is an observer at AlphaCredit and Raptor Technologies.

Prior to forming Pacific Lake, Coley worked for Golden Gate Capital, a private equity firm in San Francisco, and in management consulting for The Parthenon Group. Coley graduated from Dartmouth College and has an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Coley, his wife Alisa, and their four children live outside Boston, MA.


Kevin Oxendine


Kevin Oxendine is a Partner at Pacific Lake Partners where he brings experience as a successful executive and operator. Kevin drives Pacific Lake’s search fund software investment strategy. Kevin is a two-time successful CEO/COO. Over his three years at Wistia, the company grew from $8M to over to $30M in ARR before Kevin executed a PE-backed recapitalization. At Havit, a consulting firm, Kevin grew the firm from $6M to $36M in capitalized billings over three years.

Kevin graduated from the University of Maryland where he received the H.C. Byrd Award and earned an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business as an Arjay Miller Scholar. Kevin resides just outside of Boston, MA with his wife, Kate, and their two sons, Teddy and Chase.