Adirondack Growth Capital

TEAM

Adirondack is a group of leading entrepreneurs, business executives and individual investors. Every member has significant experience with growing, small to medium sized businesses. Adirondack is focused on finding a business that would benefit from our collective expertise and capital to build value over the long term.


David Kidd
Managing Partner

David Kidd, Managing Partner

David is the Managing Partner and founder of Adirondack Growth Capital LLC. He is responsible for identifying target companies, meeting with private business owners, conducting due diligence, structuring the transaction, negotiating deal terms and ultimately managing the acquired company.

Prior to founding Adirondack David was a Vice President at Lincoln International LLC, a middle market investment bank based in Chicago, Illinois. While at Lincoln David provided mergers and acquisitions advisory services to private business owners, private equity firms, and Fortune 1000 companies. He has completed over 25 transactions since 2004, leading deal teams and overseeing due diligence to expeditiously close transactions.

Before joining Lincoln, David was a management consultant at A.T. Kearney based in Alexandria, Virginia. As a member of A.T. Kearney's strategy practice, David worked with Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries. He successfully completed projects across a variety of topics including sales forecast effectiveness, operations and productivity improvement, performance measurement, customer retention, and reimbursement management.

David earned a Master in Business Administration from Stanford's Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy with a minor in Technology Management from the University of Illinois, graduating with Highest Honors and Bronze Tablet distinction. David is active in the Boy Scouts and is an Eagle Scout. He resides in the western suburbs of Chicago with his wife and son.

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