Dan Phelps, MBA ’99
Managing Partner, Salt Creek Capital
Dan founded Salt Creek Capital in 2009. He leads new investments and serves as chairman or a director on the boards of several Salt Creek portfolio companies. Salt Creek has completed 60+ lower middle market platform acquisitions and specializes in transactions requiring a change in leadership.
Prior to Salt Creek, Dan was a General Partner at Opus Capital, a $280M Menlo Park, CA based fund where he led growth equity and buyout efforts focusing on the middle market. Previously, Dan was a General Partner and founding member of Duchossois Technology Partners, a $100M Chicago-based venture capital firm. Earlier in his career, Dan was an investment professional at the Pritzker Family office and began his career at Ernst & Young. Dan earned a BS from The Ohio State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
