Bio

Nick DiCarlo is an accomplished investor, board director, and operating executive with over 30 years of experience in middle market privately held companies and public multinationals. Prior to joining Starboard he was a longtime Managing Director at Brynwood Partners, a top-quartile middle market control investor in Greenwich, CT. At Brynwood he was engaged in every aspect of the investment process and provided active, hands-on oversight of portfolio companies to accelerate growth. In addition, Nick served as a strategic advisor to Blake’s All-Natural Foods before its successful sale to ConAgra and is currently CEO of a SaaS start-up in the sports marketing business. Prior to entering the private equity business, Nick was Executive Vice President & CFO at Village Voice Media, where he doubled earnings and improved margins by over 30% before overseeing the sale of the business to a group of private equity investors. Earlier in his career, as Vice President of Finance for Harmon Publishing Company, he integrated numerous acquisitions as part of a roll-up strategy and created the financial systems infrastructure for the newly formed entity. He later served as the firm’s Vice President of Production responsible for multi-site prepress operations for more than 150 controlled circulation specialty magazines. Nick began his career at McGraw-Hill where was a Financial Analyst at Standard & Poor’s and later a Controller at McGraw-Hill Book Company. His board experience encompasses nine companies in the manufacturing, business services, consumer products, and media sectors. Nick earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Connecticut.