Chris Dalton

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Mr. Chris Dalton serves as Co-Founder & Partner at Aktion Partners. He served as Chief Executive Officer at CloudCraze. He also serves as a board member at InvestiFi. Prior to CloudCraze, he co-founded and served as CEO of Acquity Group. Acquity Group went public in 2012 and became the second-largest independent digital agency before being acquired by Accenture Interactive in 2013 for $316M. He has been driving innovation in the commerce industry since he began his career at Arthur Andersen and worked for both Lante Corporation (LNTE) and Modern Business Technology (MBT), which was purchased by USWeb/CKS (later marchFirst) in 1999. In 2009, he was recognized as Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year. He became a member of the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2007. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Management Information Systems from Marquette University. He was the Co-Founder and served as Partner & Chairman at Avionos. He has been involved in a number of successful business creations, growth phases, and exits over the past 30 years of his career. Most recently, he has been a General Partner of the investment group Aktion Partners LLC, which is invested in a technology consulting services firm, Avionos, and a Fintech firm, InvestiFi. He became the CEO after the investment and took the company through an explosive growth phase that resulted in the Company being acquired by Salesforce (CRM) in 2018. Prior to Aktion Partners, he co-founded Acquity Group in 2001, and He successfully guided the company through an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012, and the company went on to become the second-largest independent digital marketing company in the United States. In 2013, He completed the sale of the Acquity Group (AQ) to Accenture (ACN), a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company with approximately 266,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. After beginning his career with Arthur Andersen, He was instrumental in helping to build two businesses, Lante Corporation (LNTE) and Modern Business Technology (MBT). USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) purchased MBT in 1999. He was inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2007 and awarded Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year recognition in 2009. Marquette University named He Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013.