D Patrick Curran

Bio

Based in Kansas City, Mr. Curran has been an active and successful private equity investor since 1979 and was a founder and Principal of C3 Holdings, which invested over $60 million in ten businesses. Prior to this, he served as CEO of Cook Composites & Polymers, a $1 billion chemicals business that he helped create through a joint venture between Cook Paint and Total Chimie of France. He spent nearly 20 years at Cook Paint, working his way up to CEO, and performed one of the first leveraged buyouts on this company in 1979. He has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University and a BA in Economics from Stanford University. He has served on the board of numerous highly successful Midwestern companies, including Applebee's International, Gold Banc, Lockton Companies, Unitog, Sealright, JPS Packaging, and American Safety Razor.