Who we are
We are Avignon Partners. We have been where you are now. We have founded, operated, grown, and sold companies. We have faced challenges you can (and maybe can’t) imagine from marketing, branding, sales, and operations to investors, audits, taxes, legal, employee relations, executive management, and boards of directors. We have proven our resilience and entrepreneurial creativity, our ability to transcend and help others do the same.
Avignon Partners LLC is a strategic advisory and investment venture built around a simple idea: businesses endure when they are thoughtfully led, responsibly financed, and grounded in solid business practices. We partner with owners, operators, and investors at moments that matter most, offering perspectives shaped by real-world operating experience across full business cycles. The work is personal and deliberate, focused on understanding the people behind the enterprise as much as the numbers on the page.
Our investing follows the same philosophy. We commit capital where we see discipline, alignment, and the potential to build something durable, then remain engaged as thoughtful partners. Avignon Partners exists to support resilient leaders and organizations with outcomes that stand the test of time. Measuring success by the strength and integrity of the business that is built.
The Partners
Sarah Kauss
Partner
Jeff Peck
Partner
Sarah Kauss is the founder and former CEO of S’well (www.swell.com). In 2010, she launched the first fashion-forward, reusable stainless-steel bottle, creating an entirely new category in consumer products that aligned consumer’s desire-driven purchasing behavior with radically improved environmental outcomes. Her business revolutionized a stagnant market, and successfully displaced over 4 billion single-use plastic bottles. She has previously served on the Board of Unicef USA in New York, and as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School. She is a member of the 2018 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.
Jeff Peck is a high-impact executive and operational strategist best known for his pivotal role as the President and Chief Technology Officer of S’well, the iconic hydration brand that redefined the reusable bottle category. Throughout his tenure, Jeff was a primary driver behind the company’s transition from a breakout startup into a sophisticated, global lifestyle powerhouse. Jeff’s focus is on reducing the cycle of “crisis management" that plagues brands, both new and established. He works to put out fires and institutionalize business practices in operations, IT, legal, and HR. Prior to his work at S’well, Jeff worked in private banking operations in Zurich, Switzerland.
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