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The Team
We believe, and our results confirm, that teaming Cove Creek with a growing platform will ultimately win for customers, owners, employees and our investors.
Jeremy Anspach
Cove Creek Founder, Managing Partner
A Detroit native, Jeremy acknowledges his passion for entrepreneurship beginning at a very young age. Prior to co-founding Cove Creek Partners, Jeremy’s entire professional career has been as a founder, CEO and board member in the software and digital advertising business.
Jeremy founded PureCars in 2007 which quickly became one of the fastest growing technology companies in the automotive industry. It won multiple awards and was successfully acquired in 2015. Jeremy served as the CEO and accredits the growth and success of PureCars to his incredibly talented team. PureCars continues to be the market leader today. Jeremy has had the privilege of sitting on other private equity backed company and non profit boards.
As an entrepreneur and founder, Jeremy recognizes the power of combining technology with exceptionally talented professionals. His role at Cove Creek Partners is to accelerate growth through tech enablement, process, optimization, and other drivers that will result in growth with the common goal always in the forefront. Jeremy is enthusiastic about investing in businesses that incorporate social good into their everyday operations.
In his free time, Jeremy enjoys triathlons, cycling, water sports and spending quality time with his wife Rachel, and their three children.
Jeremy Anspach
Cove Creek Founder, Managing Partner
Before Co-founding Cove Creek Partners, Jeremy Anspach devoted his career as an entrepreneur building CarTech for the automotive industry. Jeremy founded PureCars in 2007 and led the company both as CEO and Executive chairman. As CEO, Jeremy bootstrapped the business and led the company thru massive growth resulting in a series A capital raise in 2012 and a successful sale to Raycom media in 2015 for $125M. PureCars grew over 3x while operating as a separate business unit within Raycom and later spun out and successfully sold to a private equity fund. PureCars continues to be a market leader and has made several acquisitions since. Jeremy is a passionate leader devoted to helping portfolio companies unlock their potential.
Previous to Cove Creek Partners, Jeremy Anspach founded and led PureCars, a technology company focused on the automotive industry. In 2007, he founded PureCars to simplify vehicle ownership for dealers and consumers. Using PureCars’ proprietary software platform, dealers and consumers can benefit from a reduction in ad waste and lower cost per unit sold, resulting in more competitive pricing. Through Jeremy’s passion for best-in-class technology and service, PureCars has become one of North America’s top automotive technology companies. For six consecutive years, PureCars made the Inc. 5000 list, earned Google Premier Partnership status, and won the Top Rated SEM award. It is Jeremy’s mission to help dealerships and consumers embrace the digital age to create a win-win situation. He is an industry speaker and expert on how to create a win-win situation. While leading PureCars, Jeremy successfully navigated a Series A investment round, a strategic partnership and an exit with Private Equity sponsors. His experience with PureCars and the financial community are a significant benefit to our portfolio companies. As Founder and Managing Partner of Cove Creek Partners, Jeremy’s entrepreneurial prowess leads our portfolio companies in unlocking their latent growth potential.
Kurt Polk, CFA
Cove Creek Founder, Chief Executive Officer
As a veteran of the Air Force and son of Air Force officers, Kurt has lived, traveled, and served throughout the US and globally. Kurt has had the privilege to lead two institutional asset managers as CEO and President. These experiences have shaped his approach to working with partners, investors, companies, and entrepreneurs. A similarity between the Air Force and the financial services industry is that the value of these organizations resides in the professionals that serve within it. In essence, intellectual property rides up and down the proverbial elevator every day. Therefore, Kurt’s leadership approach is based on empowering those he works with and the importance of leading by example. Kurt largely attributes his successes to those he collaborates with. Honesty, integrity, work ethic, and low ego are foundational and non-negotiable.
Kurt graduated with a BA in Economics and Business from the Virginia Military Institute. He then received his MBA in Finance from St. Mary’s University. Kurt holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
An integral part of Kurt’s personal time revolves around giving back to his community. He currently serves as Chair of the VMI Foundation Investment Committee in Lexington, VA as well as Treasurer of The Childrens’ School in Stamford, CT. As a family, Kurt’s wife, Angie, their two children and he have focused their time in support of educational, mental health, and veteran charities.
Prior to Cove Creek Partners, Kurt Polk, CFA served as President and Chief Executive Officer of two globally significant institutional asset management firms. While living in Seattle Washington, Kurt was a Partner and eventual CEO of Rainier Investment Management, leading the firm from $3 billion in assets under management to over $20 billion, while growing the firm from a regional company to a global investor. Following that, Kurt served as President of Axiom Investors in Greenwich, CT, helping to guide the international equity firm from $8 billion to $20 billion by leading all non-investment related activities including operations, technology, sales and marketing, compliance and finance. Kurt prides himself on the teams he’s recruited, worked alongside and helped to flourish. His passions are talent management, growing great businesses and living up to the trust that client organizations placed with him and his firms. Kurt’s effort with global clients and partners has allowed those organizations to meet and exceed their plan objectives, affecting millions of retirees. Kurt is a veteran of the US Air Force. As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cove Creek Partners, Kurt knows that great people all pulling in the same direction can achieve astounding goals.
Jeremy Todd
Cove Creek Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Before co-founding Cove Creek Partners, Jeremy Todd co-founded Dragonfly, which brings unique and diverse eCommerce companies to their full potential. Dragonfly successfully sold to L Catterton, a Greenwich, CT based private equity firm. After graduating from MIT with a Computer Science and Electrical Engineering degree, Jeremy Co-founded and was Chief Technology Officer of iZotope, where he led a team of 20+ engineers. As Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cove Creek Partners, Jeremy leads on visionary technology transformation and enablement for our portfolio companies.
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Jeremy Todd
Cove Creek Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Jeremy grew up in the suburbs of Boston where his father encouraged him to explore computing at a young age. At MIT he studied both computer science and music, and in 2001 he cofounded iZotope, Inc, a company which makes audio processing software and hardware products. As CTO, Jeremy led a very ambitious and talented team with a strong passion for crafting products that would resonate with their customers. The path from inspiration to a finished product was one that Jeremy traveled many times with his team, and those journeys were both formative and rewarding.
In 2013 iZotope raised a private equity investment round, and Jeremy promoted his replacement and moved on to work with his wife in her neuroscience lab in Cambridge, MA. Jeremy focused on data science for his wife and her collaborators, honing analytical skills which would find a very different application in the next chapter of his career. In 2014 Jeremy began working as CTO at Veya, a data-driven retail company that seeks out worldwide arbitrage opportunities on Amazon marketplaces and then tackles massive technical and logistical challenges to exploit them. In 2020 Jeremy co-founded Dragonfly, another Amazon-oriented company this time focused on M&A, acquiring smaller Amazon sellers and operating them centrally. Dragonfly raised a Series B from L Catterton in 2022, and in 2023 Jeremy resigned to pursue his next set of challenges.
At Cove Creek Partners Jeremy focuses on the technical aspects of prospective deals and portfolio companies. It’s often possible to take technical advances from one industry and adapt them for use in other completely unrelated industries. This is especially true when applied to how businesses are analyzed, understood and operated, since business has a lot in common across industries even though state of the art technology often doesn’t.
Personally Jeremy and his family moved to the Charleston area in 2017, drawn by its intercoastal waterways and the community of people who enjoy them. Jeremy, his wife Elizabeth, and their two children spend much of their free time in or around Charleston’s water.