Dave McLean

Tech veteran with a legacy of growing and transforming businesses around the world. A change agent, with high-impact roles as a 7-time CEO, operating partner, executive coach, and investor. Diverse sector experience spans every stage of the business life cycle from start-ups to Fortune 50 enterprise scale, special situations to post-M&A integration. The consummate steward for all stakeholders where situational leadership, operational excellence, pragmatic business strategies, organizational alignment, and shaping team cultures are the hallmarks.

Body of work includes a $800 million global manufacturing operation, a $110 million multimedia platform start-up, accelerated growth of a fabless microelectronics networking business, high growth and category leadership of an AI CPG SaaS start-up, the transformation of an IT services firm to a GovTech SaaS platform business, the successful turnarounds of an emerging growth consumer electronics company and a high-profile public telecom business, realized $905 million - 3.2x MOIC as a member of the SRF Investment Committee, and drove successful M&A outcomes as an operating partner for 11 portfolio companies.

My sector expertise includes Manufacturing, Microelectronics, SaaS & Tech-Enabled Services, AI-Predictive Analytics, Enterprise, Consumer, Medical Devices, Telecom, and Energy Tech.

Built a career of helping over 20 businesses, teams, and stakeholders with deep domain experience and value creation expertise including:

• Positioning and Growth Strategies
• Marketing & Sales Processes, Tactics and Teams
• High-Performance Execution
• Teambuilding, Alignment & Communications
• Capital Efficient Investments
• Business Development
• Technology Commercialization
• M&A
• The “5” Behaviors
• Situational Leadership

And guided by a value system focused on winning "the right way":

• Act with honor and integrity
• Communicate with transparency
• Be present in every engagement
• Embrace your strengths, weaknesses, and biases
• Keep it simple
• Be humble