Jude Gorman is a founding partner of Collected Strategies and has seen the business life cycle from a variety of angles. Prior to founding Collected, Jude was a corporate and bankruptcy lawyer at Latham & Watkins LLP and the general counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of Reorg (now Octus). After joining Reorg as one of its first employees, Jude oversaw many aspects of the company’s growth–including marketing, public relations and corporate development–before managing the process leading to Reorg’s sale to Warburg Pincus in 2018. From 2019 to 2023, Jude was a partner and the Chief Operating Officer of Joele Frank. Jude holds a BSBA from Georgetown University and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center. He is the co-chair of Associate Board of the Madison Square Park Conservancy.