Daniel Silvers is the Founder and Managing Member of Matthews Lane Capital Partners LLC.  He also currently serves as Executive Chairman of Winventory, Inc., a tech-enabled leading event ticketing management partner, enabling a flexible season ticket ownership experience, and as a Director of MRC Global Inc, a leading global distributor of infrastructure products and services to diversified gas utility, energy and industrial end-markets.  He previously served as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Leisure Acquisition Corp. as well as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of Inspired Entertainment, Inc., where he was a member of the Office of the Executive Chairman.  He has previously served on the boards of directors of International Game Technology, Universal Health Services, Inc., Avid Technology, Inc., bwin.party digital entertainment plc, Forestar Group, Inc., PICO Holdings, Inc., Ashford Hospitality Prime, Inc. and India Hospitality Corp., as well as serving as President of Western Liberty Bancorp, an acquisition-oriented company which bought and recapitalized Service1st Bank of Nevada, a community bank in Las Vegas, NV.  In 2015, Mr. Silvers was featured in the National Association of Corporate Directors' "A New Generation of Board Leadership: Directors Under Age 40" list of emerging corporate directors.  Mr. Silvers has been a member of YPO.

 

Prior to founding Matthews Lane, Mr. Silvers was the President of SpringOwl Asset Management LLC, having joined a predecessor entity in 2009.  Previously, Mr. Silvers was a Vice President at Fortress Investment Group, a leading global alternative asset manager, where he worked from 2005 to 2009. Prior to joining Fortress, he was a senior member of the real estate, gaming and lodging investment banking group at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., where he worked from 1999 to 2005.

 

Mr. Silvers holds a B.S. in Economics and an M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has also received a Corporate Governance certification through the Director Education & Certification Program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.  

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Mr. Silvers is also active in a number of not-for-profits, including Horace Mann School, University of Pennsylvania, UJA-Federation of New York and The Lustgarten Foundation.

 

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