Dan Caruso

Dan Caruso is a 3x decacorn entrepreneur and an avid supporter of entrepreneurship.Dan was the Founding Partner, Chairman and CEO of Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO), where investors enjoyed a $8.5B equity exit on a $1.0B investment. Dan was a co-founding executive of Level 3 and joined Metropolitan Fiber Systems (MFS) as it began to scale. All three exited for enterprise values > $10B. Dan also led the take private of ICG, which achieved a 25X return and led to the ideation of Zayo.Dan is a supporter of Colorado’s and Chicago’s entrepreneurial community. He serves as Chairman of the Board for Endeavor Colorado and is on the boards of Colorado Thrives, University of Chicago’s Polsky Center and CU Boulder’s Chancellor Strategic Advisory Council.Dan is a recipient of several awards including the Chicago Booth Distinguished Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship, Colorado Technology Association’s Bob Newman Lifetime Achievement Award, and Colorado Governor’s Corporate Citizenship Medal.