Dan Cremons

After starting his career in operations management and wealth management, Dan Cremons—an author who detests writing about himself in the third person, but will try to make you think that someone else wrote this—landed in the private equity space in 2007 thanks to a few strokes of luck and a little elbow grease. Since the early days (the first month of which he spent trying to figure out what EBITDA stood for), Dan has led investments, served on numerous boards, built out portfolio operations and human-capital capabilities, and led within several private equity-backed companies as a CEO and CXO. Perhaps most notably, he was the proud champion of his previous firm’s 2011 and 2012 cornhole tournaments (though he has since lost his touch) and took first prize in its 2015 plank competition. Along the way, Dan realized that although there were investors far better than him at the deal-making part of private equity investing, his greatest contributions came, as he puts it, “after the wires cleared”—during the value creation phase. Recognizing this, Dan launched Accelera Partners to help ambitious private equity firms accelerate what he calls “people-powered performance” in their portfolio companies. Dan helps portfolio companies’ leadership teams define their winning future, get clear on the stepping-stones in that direction, and ensure they have the right team and culture in place to get there. When he’s not serving awesome private equity clients and their leadership teams, Dan enjoys endurance sports, kicking back on the nearest body of water, reading any non-fiction he can get his hands on, attempting to homebrew, and spending time with his amazing wife Courtney, their fun and happy little guy Ollie, and their sweet but lazy adopted (dog)son Wally. All inquiries for podcast appearances, interviews, and speaking engagements can be sent to support@accelerapartners.co.