Bio

Derick Prelle is a Partner at Butterfly and leads the firm’s Portfolio Operations Team. In this role, Mr. Prelle is responsible for supporting Butterfly portfolio company management teams in the identification, design and delivery of long-term value creation. Mr. Prelle has over twenty years of operational improvement experience, collaborating with dozens of companies to deliver accelerated bottom line improvement and attractive returns to stakeholders. Prior to joining Butterfly, Mr. Prelle was the Managing Partner, Americas for KKR’s operations team, KKR Capstone, overseeing one of the largest private equity operations team in the industry. In this role, Mr. Prelle had responsibility for portfolio company operations work across all KKR America’s industry groups, with personal oversight of the Consumer, Food & Retail sectors. Additionally, he managed KKR Capstone’s functional groups, deploying into the portfolio experts in Risk Management, Insurance, Technology, Procurement and Supply Chain.