Dan Phelps

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.  Additionally, he serves as a director on the board of TSS, Inc. (OTC: TSSI), and previously served as a director on the board of Infoblox (NYSE: BLOX), prior to a $1.6B take-private transaction in 2016.  

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 financial office and began his career at Ernst & Young.

Dan graduated with Honors from The Ohio State University with a B.S. in Business Administration and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.