Theo Paskal

Theo Paskal is a Principal at Tyree & D'Angelo Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm that makes control ownership investments in the lower middle market. According to his firm bio, he brings nearly a decade of investing, due diligence, and business experience to the firm's investment team.

Before joining TDP, Paskal worked at L.E.K. Consulting in Chicago, where he focused on private equity due diligence. Earlier in his career, he worked as an engineer at Boeing in Seattle — an unusual path from aerospace engineering into private equity that reflects his technical background.

On the education side, Paskal earned an MBA with honors from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and holds both an MS and a BS in Engineering, each earned with honors, from the University of Michigan.

At TDP, he sits on the investment team (Partners, Principals, Vice Presidents, Associates, and Analysts) that sources and executes the firm's "buy-and-build" platform deals alongside founders Michael Tyree (President) and Enzo D'Angelo (CEO).

• Invests through Tyree & D'Angelo Partners, which pursues control buyouts of lower-middle-market companies — not early-stage/angel seed rounds, despite how some databases label him.
• Target profile: high-quality, founder-owned businesses with $1–5M of annual EBITDA and under ~$50M in revenue, in stable or growing U.S. and Canadian industries.
• Sector bias toward healthcare, consumer, and business services.
• Strategy is a "buy-and-build" roll-up model: acquire a platform, then grow it through add-ons and operational value creation over a long-term horizon.
• The firm's stated approach is to establish "true collaborative partnerships with business owners and management teams" that lead to substantial value creation — emphasizing a "high probability of success" process and lower-risk growth.

No individual deals are publicly attributed to Theo Paskal by name. At the firm level, Tyree & D'Angelo Partners is known for buy-and-build platforms concentrated in healthcare, consumer, and business services (for example, TDP has built platforms in areas such as veterinary/animal health, fertility and women's health services, and other founder-owned service businesses). Specific portfolio companies tied directly to Paskal's involvement were not verifiable from public sources.