Dan has been a private equity investor for 10 years and has extensive experience investing in family founder transactions across industrials, manufacturing, distribution and consumer businesses having completed over 20 investments throughout his career.
Most recently, Dan was on the investment team at Aterian Investment Partners where he sourced, diligenced, and led value creation initiatives for several of the firms investments. He was formerly on the boards of several industrial, manufacturing, value added distribution, and b2b consumer investments.
Dan started his career in Wells Fargo’s Industrials Group within the investment bank supporting M&A sellsides, buysides, leveraged loans and equity capital raises.
He graduated from Cornell University with dual BAs in Political Science and China Asia Studies. He was also a member of the Cornell Rowing Team and still ergs occasionally.
Dan grew up on the north side of Chicago and lives in downtown NYC. Since deep dish pizza does not exist in NYC, he attended a deep dish cooking class and makes his own Chicago style pizza. He does CrossFit six days a week, enjoys strenuous hikes and has a hard time sitting still.