Prairie Capital (“Prairie”) is pleased to announce the promotions of three senior investment team members to Principal: Tony Danielak, D.J. Lipke, and Jeff Vranek.
“Tony, D.J., and Jeff are longstanding members of the Prairie team and have each made significant contributions to our collective success,” said Nate Good, Prairie’s Managing Partner. “We are proud of our track record of developing talent from within our Firm, and believe this is an integral part of Prairie’s unique culture. Please join us in congratulating Tony, D.J., and Jeff on their well-deserved promotions.”
Tony Danielak joined Prairie in 2008 after spending two years at William Blair’s investment banking division. He focuses on investment activities in the technology and education sectors, and has substantial experience with multi-site business models. He led Prairie’s recent investments in Sgt. Clean Car Wash and Applied Data Corp. For more information on Tony, please visit https://www.prairie-capital.com/portfolio/tony-danielak/.
D.J. Lipke joined Prairie in 2011 after spending three years at Summit Partners and two years at JP Morgan’s investment banking division. He focuses on investment activities in the consumer sector and is also active in the healthcare and industrial sectors. D.J. led Prairie’s recent investment in P1 Dental Partners. For more information on D.J., please visit https://www.prairie-capital.com/portfolio/d-j-lipke/.
Jeff Vranek joined Prairie in 2011 after spending three years at Duff & Phelps’ investment banking division. He focuses on investment activities in the home health and hospice sector, as well as the industrial technologies and engineering services sectors. He led Prairie’s recent investment in Legacy Hospice. For more information on Jeff, please visit https://www.prairie-capital.com/portfolio/jeff-vranek/.
In addition to the senior investment team promotions, Prairie is pleased to announce the promotion of Alison Bulkley to Senior Associate. Ms. Bulkley joined Prairie in 2018 after spending three years at JP Morgan’s leverage finance and commercial banking divisions. For more information on Alison, please visit https://www.prairie-capital.com/portfolio/alison-bulkley/.
ABOUT PRAIRIE CAPITAL
Founded in Chicago in 1997, Prairie Capital is a private equity fund with a long and successful track record of scaling growth-oriented, lower middle market companies in partnership with talented founders and management teams. Since inception, Prairie has invested over $1 billion in 98 platform companies. Prairie makes control equity investments in founder-owned companies that require company-building investments to evolve into scalable platforms capable of sustaining accelerated growth. Prairie targets companies with $4 to $12 million in EBITDA that participate in growing subsectors within business services, consumer, education, healthcare, industrial, and technology. More information about Prairie can be found at www.prairie-capital.com.