Dan Blank - Managing Partner

Dan has spent the last twenty years leading and advising emerging-growth technology companies. As an investment banker with Adams, Harkness and Hill, Dan helped dozens of companies to realize in excess of $1 billion in market value. A Group Leader in the Software and Internet Practice, he steered client companies through buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions, IPOs, follow-on offerings, and private placements. Dan was then recruited to lead the business development efforts for Mpower Communications, a publicly traded telecommunications provider. He expanded his scope at Mpower to the sales organization, where he played a leading role in restructuring the 500 person sales organization. Dan redesigned training, compensation and performance analysis, thereby increasing revenue and margin while reducing customer acquisition costs. He was then asked to spearhead the corporate development efforts and was responsible for divesting three material business units. Dan was later recruited to Infinia Corp., a Paul Allen-financed solar equipment manufacturer, where he was tasked with integrating sales, finance, engineering and manufacturing to support the fulfillment of $2 billion in contracts for energy developers around the world. Dan earned a B.A. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA, Magna Cum Laude, from Babson College.