About
Brekka Group is a family office that makes long term investments in growing companies within the financial services, technology, real estate, and hospitality sectors. Our expertise in operating experience, valuable relationships, and thought leadership help drive value creation.
Investment Strategy
Brekka Group provides long term capital for growth and strategic development. We partner with founders and management teams to provide financial and creative solutions to help grow companies. We believe in determined entrepreneurs. By providing guidance, relationships and capital, we reinforce their pursuit of a positive impact.
Marisol Lugo Brekka
Managing Partner, founder of the Brekka Group, LLC.
Marisol Lugo Brekka is the Managing Partner, founder of the Brekka Group, LLC. The Brekka Group is a family office that makes long term investments in growing companies in diverse sectors and markets. Its portfolio consists of companies in the financial services, technology, e-commerce, real estate, and consumer product sectors.
Marisol began her career with Bank of America’s management training program 25 years ago. She specialized in mergers and acquisitions within the manufacturing and distribution industries. Her portfolio consisted of several Fortune 500 companies mostly in the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West regions. She has been in the financial services industry for over 28 years. Her passion is working with entrepreneurs helping to create financial and strategic solutions to growing companies.
Marisol has always been a strong advocate for non-profits dedicated to making a difference in the lives of the underprivileged and Latino communities. She is co-founder of PlasmaSaves.org, a not-for-profit she help start as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization facilitated the donation of COVID-19 convalescent plasma to save lives. Along with the Fight Is In Us, PlasmaSaves.org assisted in the collection of over 600,000 units of convalescent plasma during the pandemic. It has been nationally recognized as one of the US leading organizations that helped create a national awareness campaign for plasma collection.
Marisol is Cuban American and learned to speak English at the age of five. She received a degree in Finance from Florida Southern College and MBA from the University of Tampa. She is member of the Harvard Business School 2021 Women on Boards Program.
Richard J Brekka
Advisor
Richard Brekka, serves as an Advisor to the Brekka Group, LLC. He is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Second Alpha Partners, a value-oriented private equity firm focused on secondary and secondary-linked direct investments in mature venture-stage, growth-equity and middle-market companies showing prospects for superior future growth.
He currently serves as a board member of TeraGo Networks (TSX: TGO) and as a board observer of Prove Identity. Prior to founding Second Alpha, Richard was President, Managing Partner and founder of Dolphin Equity Partners, a New York-based venture firm.
Before Dolphin, Richard was a Managing Director in the private equity investment group at CIBC and President of CIBC’s U.S. private equity subsidiaries.
Richard holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the University of Chicago.