Daniel L Shimer

Bio

Mr is a Managing Director of Teakwood Capital. He has over 40 years of experience operating, building and investing in growing businesses. Previously, Dan was a Venture Partner with Austin Ventures for over five years and founder and President of Shimer Capital Partners Inc, an early stage private equity firm. Prior to 1996 Dan served as a founding shareholder and a Senior Executive of four highly successful companies in the technology (CoreStaff "CSTF"), service (Computerland "CPLD"), and distribution industries (FoxMeyer Drug "FXM", and Coast To Coast Hardware "CTC"). These companies each started out small, grew to over $1.0 billion in revenues, and went public. From 1994 to 1998 Mr Shimer closed 58 acquisitions. In addition, he has closed numerous public and private offerings of both equity and debt in his career, including four IPO's. A CPA, he began his career at KPMG Peat Marwick. Dan holds an undergraduate degree from Indiana University and attended the graduate schools of Loyola University and Stanford University.