Daniel L. Shimer

Prior to joining Teakwood, Mr. Shimer 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.
He is a Director/Investor in numerous private ventures in the technology, service and financial services industries.
Prior to 1996 he 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, Mr. Shimer began his career at KPMG Peat Marwick.
He holds an undergraduate degree from Indiana University and attended the graduate schools of Loyola University and Stanford University.