Dan Darchuck

Dan Darchuck is the CEO and co-founder of Topturn Capital LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser. SEC filings identify him as Daniel Darchuck and list him as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Topturn Capital from 2009 onward. Topturn’s own site says Darchuck and co-founder Greg Stewart started the firm after years at a large investment firm because they believed the industry was not well suited to business owners and their families.

Darchuck’s career has centered on wealth management and asset management. A 2014 Worth profile reported that he had spent about 30 years in wealth management, including time at UBS and Merrill Lynch, before founding Topturn with Stewart in 2009. SEC fund registration materials also list him as Principal Executive Officer of the Topturn OneEighty Fund beginning in September 2015.

Topturn’s current positioning is not venture capital. The firm describes its mission as managing and protecting the wealth of business owners and their families. Darchuck’s public writing focuses on business-owner wealth, tax planning, succession planning, and preserving capital through market cycles. In an April 2024 Topturn post, he signed as “Dan Darchuck, CFP, CPWA, CEO & co-founder.”

• Topturn’s investment approach is built around risk-aware wealth management rather than seed-stage company investing. The firm emphasizes protecting capital, reducing exposure to large drawdowns, and aligning portfolios with a client’s personal and business goals.
• Darchuck has described Topturn’s process as a momentum-aware strategy across primary asset classes. In a Financial Advisor interview, he said the firm seeks to “ride performance momentum wherever it exists across asset classes” and pivot away from weakening conditions.
• The firm’s public materials focus on business owners who have already taken substantial entrepreneurial risk and may not want their personal wealth exposed to unnecessarily risky investments.
• Darchuck’s recent writing emphasizes tax-aware planning for entrepreneurs, including cost segregation, cash balance plans, and charitable planning.
• No verified public evidence was found that Darchuck is an active angel investor writing seed checks into startups; the public record supports a profile as a wealth adviser, asset manager, and business-owner succession-planning specialist.