Looking for Strong Partnerships

Auxilium Partners is an investment firm founded by entrepreneurs looking to support others through the entrepreneurial journey. We focus our partnerships within the following verticals:

Healthcare – significant experience across healthcare with specific specialization within the behavioral healthcare segment
Real Estate – Value-Add Real Estate investments primary in workforce, multi-family real estate
Technology – SaaS, hardware tech, and blockchain technology

Partnership Criteria:

Software or services in the Healthcare Industry with specialization in EMR/EHR systems, revenue cycle management, and behavioral healthcare services
Organizations positioned for significant growth
Teams that are confident in their commitment but looking for a supportive partner

Where Auxilium can be supportive to organizations:

Scaling leaders and teams rapidly while remaining customer/patient-centered
Providing support to leaders that encounter the consistent challenges faced by a growing, innovative organization
Experience and perspective scaling software and systems in a multi-site, multi-region heatlhcare organization

Our Principles

Empowerment. Leaders are the experts of their team members and their organizations, not investors. Empowered leaders are the key to success.
Self-Exploration. The strongest leaders are those that never stop learning and developing through continued introspection and growth.
Bet on Ourselves. We respect the responsibility of leadership, and partner with those that have the courage to shape the future by betting on themselves. Any challenge or uncertainty we face is an opportunity for us to make an impact. Leaders are those that step into the challenges and uncertainty…it’s just what we do.
Customer/Patient-centered. We do what’s best for the customer/patient, each other, and the community.
Alignment. Alignment is incredibly important when partnering with entrepreneurs. We believe our extensive experience as operators allows us to foster more natural alignment with leaders and helping support them through their entrepreneurial journeys.

Experience of the Team

Marcello La Rocca, Partner

Rick McKenzie, Partner

Korrigan Clark, Partner - Technology

Marcello and Rick have extensive experience as both operators and investors. Prior to starting Auxilium Partners, they co-founded Sandstone Care, a multi-site, multi-geography behavioral health organization specializing in teen and young adult services. They supported company’s growth from 2 employees to over 250 in 5 years. The rapid growth of Sandstone Care provided a great foundation to understand the challenges of shaping a culture committed to the patients they served while navigating a complex business model. Sandstone Care offers multiple service lines in an inpatient and outpatient setting and had in-house operations that covered many departments including digital marketing, business development & outreach, admissions & intake, direct care, outcomes tracking system, utilization review, revenue cycle management, human resources, compliance, finance & accounting, and IT management.
- Prior to Sandstone Care, Marcello and Rick worked for Grey Mountain Partners, a Colorado-based private equity firm with more than $700 million of capital under management.
- Marcello began his career with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in their Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group and graduated magna cum laude from Miami University (Ohio) with a B.S. in Finance and Accountancy.
- Rick began his career with Jefferies’ Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group focused on high growth unit-based retailers and graduated cum laude from Wake Forest University with a B.S. in Finance.
Korrigan has deep knowledge and experience in blockchain technology, mathematics, and database technologies. Prior to co-founding Kamino Management, a blockchain investment firm partnered with Auxilium Partners, Korrigan worked as software performance engineer for Couhbase until the company’s successful IPO. Korrigan began his career as an SDET at Basho Technologies and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and the City College of New York with a M.S. in Physics.