Clayton E. Sachs

Clayton Sachs brings over a decade of investing and operating experience. Clayton currently serves as Vice President of Datacor overseeing two business units, professional services and customer support, go-to-market strategy, and corporate development (M&A). During his 7-year tenure at Datacor Clayton has executed on and integrated 8 acquisitions, opened a 40 person development center in Costa Rica, launched an integrated payments offering, and aided in building out the Datacor executive team. Clayton searched for and underwrote the original Datacor investment in 2015 and 2016 as part of Tom’s Search Fund, WJT Partners, while completing his MBA at Columbia Business School.

Outside of his duties at Datacor Clayton is an active investor in Search Funds and is invested in over 20 search fund operating companies and has invested in over 30 Search Funds. Clayton serves on the board of two successful search fund acquired companies, both in the software space.

Prior to joining Tom in the acquisition of Datacor Clayton was on the Technology investing team at TA Associates a $20bn global growth private equity firm. At TA Clayton sourced and executed on investments in the Enterprise Software segment. Clayton started his career in investment banking at J.P. Morgan.

Clayton holds an A.B. in History from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.