Dan Doran

Dan Doran is the founder of Quantive, an investment banking boutique serving founder-led companies with $3M+ in EBITDA. He leads the firm's M&A transactions, oversees the firm's valuation practice, and helps business owners build more valuable companies before they sell. His work rests on a simple conviction: enterprise value is built long before a deal is signed, and shareholders deserve to exit at the time and on the terms of their choosing. He is the co-author of The Path to $100 Million, which introduces the Five Transformations framework behind Quantive's approach, and created Value Scout, a SaaS platform for enterprise value creation.

A West Point graduate and former Army Cavalry officer, Dan began his finance career in bankruptcy turnarounds, leveraged buyouts, and GE restructuring projects. Since 2004, he has completed several thousand valuation assignments, and his deal experience gives him a buyer's sense of what a company is really worth. Today he is especially drawn to companies building technology for the warfighter, and he also brings deep experience in data center services and the broader technology and professional services landscape.

Dan was named Exit Planning Leader of the Year by the Exit Planning Institute in 2019. He speaks frequently on M&A, valuation, and value creation, and has been published or quoted in Fortune, Forbes, US News & World Report, Financial Advisor Magazine, Washington Business Journal, and Entrepreneur.