Chad Kruse

Prior to joining Riverlake Partners, Mr. Kruse served as a strategist and deal-maker for Intuit, a financial software company best known for its Quicken, Quickbooks, and TurboTax products.
There he focused on developing new markets and negotiating a wide array of acquisitions, spin-outs, partnerships, and investments.
Before Intuit , Mr. Kruse was part of the Acquisitions and Strategic Ventures team at SAIC, the world's largest employee-owned R&D firm.
Mr. Kruse started his career at a boutique corporate finance advisory firm, Columbia Financial Advisors, in Portland , Oregon .
Mr. Kruse has a B.B.A in Finance from the University of Iowa .