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​Daniel Zwelling is the founder and Managing Director of Rivermill Advisors. Prior to starting Rivermill, Dan was a Managing Director at TM Sanabe Partners and Sanabe & Associates. Sanabe & Associates was a boutique investment bank focused on the paper & packaging, building products and renewable energy industries.  TM Sanabe Partners is a specialty practice of TM Capital, focusing on the sectors historically covered by Sanabe. At these firms, Dan worked with a range of clients, including Catalyst Paper, Domtar, EACOM Timber, EPICO Srl, Finch Pruyn, Interfor, Kruger, Manistique Papers, NewPage, Resolute Forest Products, Smurfit-Stone Container (Ad-Hoc Group of Preferred Equity Holders), Synergics, Versa Capital/Brite-Line Technologies, Watermill Group/FutureMark Alsip, Wellspring Capital Management/Neucel Specialty Cellulose and WestRock.

From 1999 – 2002, Dan worked as an Associate in the Paper, Packaging and Forest Products group at Credit Suisse First Boston. In this position, he played a significant role in several completed transactions for International Paper including the $10 billion acquisition of Champion International and related financing, the $500 million sale of the Masonite division and a $1 billion Convertible Debenture offering.

Prior to receiving his MBA from Yale University, Dan worked as a legislative aide to Congressman Robert Matsui (CA). Dan received a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz.