Chairman & CEO
Jack Baum is Chairman and CEO of Food, Friends and Company, Baum is a partner of 2M Companies, Inc., a Dallas private equity firm, and was the founding partner of Sagebrook Technology Partners, a private equity firm that merged with 2M in 2001. Before founding Sagebrook in 1998, Jack spent 18 years in the restaurant and foodservice industries, founding the Canyon Restaurant Group, Newport’s and Hampton’s restaurants, as well as Landlock Seafood.
As founder and CEO of the Canyon Restaurant Group, Baum grew multiple restaurants concepts into a successful 20-store chain. He bought a troubled concept called Sam’s Cafe in 1989 and, with his team, transformed Sam’s into the Southwestern-themed Canyon Cafe. In 1997, after rolling out 17 additional locations, Canyon Cafe was bought by a public company. Baum stayed with the new entity during the transition to insure a smooth conversion from a private entity to a $1 billion public company. In 1997, Canyon Cafe was selected as one of Nation’s Restaurant News Hot Concepts.
Baum founded and developed Hampton’s and Newport’s, both successful Dallas-based seafood restaurants. Hampton’s, a mid-priced seafood concept, opened in 1981 and operated through 1990 when he converted the concept to another Canyon Cafe location. Newport’s opened in 1984 and quickly became the most popular upscale seafood restaurant in Dallas. Baum sold Newport’s in 1996 to focus on expanding the fast-growing Canyon Cafe group. Baum founded Landlock Seafood in 1978, a Dallas- based seafood distributor that would become the largest seafood supplier in the Southwest, selling his interest to his partner in 1980.
Baum received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas in Austin and completed the Young Presidents Organization Entrepreneur’s MBA program at Harvard University. Mr. Baum also teaches an MBA Entrepreneurial class at SMU Cox School of Business.
Baum serves on the board of directors of the following entities: Food, Friends and Company, Ingenient Technologies, Centego Marketing and Premier Data. He also serves on the executive committees and/or boards of The Jewish Foundation of Greater Dallas, Community Homes for Adults (CHAI) of Dallas, Greenhill School and is the President of the Jewish Community Center.
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Advisor, Director and Investor
Morton Meyerson is Chairman and CEO of 2M Companies, Inc., a Dallas based private equity firm that invests in a variety of private & public equities and real estate. Food, Friends and Company is Meyerson’s first foray into the restaurant business, and he has been partners with Jack Baum since 2001.
Prior to 2M, Meyerson was the Chairman and CEO of Perot Systems Corporation (PSC) from 1992 to 1998. Before PSC, he held a number of management positions with Electronic Data Systems, Inc. (EDS) from 1966 through 1986, including Vice Chairman and President. During his tenure with EDS, Mr. Meyerson also served as CEO of Wall Street investment firm duPont Glore Forgan. Meyerson was elected outstanding Chief Executive Officer three times by the Wall Street Transcript.
His present non-profit service is directed to The Morton H. Meyerson Family Tzedakah Fund, and in the past he has served on the boards of the National Parks Foundation and the Dallas Symphony Association.
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