Jack Kwicien
Managing Partner

Mr. Kwicien has over 30 years of executive management experience. He has founded several entrepreneurial ventures and has significant experience in insurance and worksite marketing, negotiating strategic alliances, financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Kwicien and his partners founded Daymark Advisors, a Baltimore-based consulting and advisory services firm in 2001. Exclusively serving the insurance, financial services and workforce management market sectors, Daymark Advisors provides strategic consultancy on a retained basis and is a merger and acquisition intermediary with clients on both the buy and sell side. Mr. Kwicien leads Daymark’s M&A practice.

He previously founded RewardsPlus; a national employee benefits company that leverages Internet technology and worksite-marketing strategies to deliver customized core and voluntary benefits solutions to employers and employees. He led RewardsPlus as President and CEO until he successfully exited the company in 1999.

Prior to RewardsPlus, Mr. Kwicien spent over 20 years in the insurance and financial services industry and held executive positions principally in sales and marketing with Prudential, Crum & Forster and Zurich Insurance Group. While an executive with Zurich, he founded a worksite marketing business unit, Group Sales, that successfully marketed property and casualty insurance using payroll deduction billing. Under Mr. Kwicien’s direction, the business unit grew to $42 million in sales in 2.5 years.

In the past, Mr. Kwicien was a founder and managing director of Incube8, Inc. a business incubator, accelerator and venture capital firm. Mr. Kwicien oversaw the operational activities of the fund, was a member of the investment committee, and provided mentoring and strategic guidance to portfolio company executive teams.

Mr. Kwicien is a member of the UMBC President’s Advisory Council, serves as a member of the Executive Committee of The Baltimore Business Forum and sits on the Advisory Board for Benefits Marketing Association. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and volunteers for South Baltimore Station, a shelter for the homeless.