Dan Englehart

Dan Englehart is a Chicago-area private-equity investor focused on the lower middle market. His email and phone number tie him to D'Orazio Capital Partners / D'Orazio Holdings, LLC, where he worked as a Senior Associate. D'Orazio is a holding company and family office (headquartered at 101 Burr Ridge Parkway, Suite 206, Burr Ridge, IL) that pursues control investments in lower-middle-market industrial companies — turbine services, hydraulic couplers, automotive tube components, compressor services, valves, and gearboxes — where capital plus operating expertise can drive growth. The D'Orazio team is led by Managing Partner John Broucek IV, CFA (previously Northern Trust, Harbor Capital Advisors, and Credit Suisse).

Englehart currently serves as a Principal at Eagle Hill Partners, a Chicago-based private investment firm founded in 2020 that operates as an independent sponsor. Eagle Hill partners with founder- and family-owned businesses, providing "patient capital solutions" with flexible structures and long-term horizons rather than the fixed-fund model of traditional private equity. The firm's public team is small — Englehart and Garrett Stalker are the two named principals.

The classification of Englehart/D'Orazio as an "angel" doing "seed rounds" (seen in some deal-database and aggregator listings) does not match the primary-source evidence: both firms he is associated with make control investments in established, cash-flowing operating companies (buyouts, recaps, and management transitions), not early-stage venture bets. Founders of pre-revenue startups seeking seed checks are outside his mandate.

There are several other people named "Dan Englehart" online (for example, a president of Peter Basso Associates, an engineering firm); those are distinct individuals and are not the D'Orazio/Eagle Hill investor profiled here.

• Invests in control positions in profitable, founder/family-owned lower-middle-market companies — recapitalizations, management buyouts, organic-growth funding, and turnarounds.
• Target companies typically have ~$5M–$50M in revenue, recurring revenue, sustainable margins, and a defensible competitive advantage.
• Eagle Hill's stated approach: to "partner with founder/family-owned businesses where we can leverage our experience, advisory board and professional network to support operational improvements and growth initiatives," offering "patient capital solutions for privately-held businesses."
• Sector comfort in industrials, business services, distribution, and consumer services, with demonstrated depth in HVAC / plumbing / mechanical services (Great Lakes region) and, via D'Orazio, industrial manufacturing and energy services.
• Says yes to durable, well-run operating businesses at owner-transition or growth inflection points — not early-stage venture/seed opportunities.