Dustin Sellers
Dustin Sellers, Kellogg ’97
Managing Partner, Next Coast Legacy
Dustin Sellers is a seasoned entrepreneur and operator with more than twenty years of experience. Most recently, he served as managing director of Koa Capital Partners, a boutique private equity firm specializing in lower-middle-market buyouts.
A member of the Search Fund Community Hall of Fame, Sellers generated a 22x return on his acquisition of ProService. Purchased in 2005 through the search fund model, the company grew from $13 million to more than $200 million in annual revenue and was sold at a valuation exceeding $300 million.
Earlier in his career, Sellers was the first employee and later general manager of Ingenio.com (Keen.com), a Benchmark Capital–backed e-commerce company later acquired by AT&T. He began his career in growth strategy consulting with Braxton/Deloitte. Sellers holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS in business from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.