VICE PRESIDENT
Daniel O'Neill
Team | Investment Team, AE Ventures

Mr. O’Neill is a Vice President at AE Industrial and a member of AE Ventures, the venture capital platform of AE Industrial Partners. Prior to joining AE Industrial in 2024, he founded Hundred Acre Consulting Group, a consortium of independent, multidisciplinary entrepreneurs that provides outsourced strategic finance, corporate development and operational efficiency services for business leaders across a range of industries. Before that, Mr. O’Neill was the Vice President of Corporate Development at Latch, a multifamily real estate technology firm, where he served as a principal on the company’s merger with a Tishman Speyer-sponsored SPAC, and built the company’s M&A and corporate venture infrastructure. Prior to joining Latch, Mr. O’Neill served as Head of Corporate Development at Shift Technologies, an auto ecommerce platform for buying & selling used cars, where he successfully took the company public via a SPAC. Before joining Shift, he served as Senior Corporate Development Manager at Eventbrite, the Director of Business Operations for the Americas division of 360 Trading Networks, Inc. and a Senior Finance & Operations Manager at Vertical Research Partners. Mr. O’Neill also co-founded a B2C health and fitness nutrition e-commerce start-up called RacePak, curating international craft nutrition products for individual subscribers, while also serving as a B2B nutrition distributor to fitness facilities around the country. He began his career serving in several financial, operational and sales roles at Thomson Reuters in London, New York and Boston.

Education
  • Wake Forest University, BA
Prior Experience
  • Hundred Acre Consulting Group
  • Latch Inc.
  • Shift Technologies, Inc.
  • Eventbrite, Inc.
  • 360 Trading Networks, Inc.
  • Vertical Research Partners
  • RacePak
  • Thomson Reuters