Daspin & Co.

Mr. Daspin is a seasoned Private Merchant Banker and has been the leading dealmaker in more than 350+ acquisitions (the chief negotiator and principal shareholder in over 150 of those acquired companies). He is considered one of the foremost appraisers of small to medium-sized businesses in the U.S., and he holds the record of having purchased over 350+ private corporations without utilizing any public funds. During the last 30 plus years, Mr. Daspin and his Joint Venture Associates have appraised over 8,000 companies and approximately 3,500 associated real estate projects, and they have acquired approximately 350 corporations using operating capital in excess $500 million dollars. Mr. Daspin holds a B.A. from Emerson College and was a tank commander and officer in the U.S. Army Reserve.

Throughout his career journey spanning five decades, Mr. Daspin has collaborated with various joint venture partners who have contributed significantly to his success. Notable among them are:

Thomas J. Pritzker – Executive Chairman of Hyatt Corporation, a multinational hospitality company; Charles M. Skibo – renowned venture capitalist and first President/CEO of telecom giant, US Sprint; Leo Hausman – former Vice Chairman of Belding Hemingway & Company, a textile manufacturer; Lawrence R. Lux – former Managing Director at National Geographic Society, the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organization in the world; William Pollack, former Sr. Mgt. Consultant for Cisco, an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation; and Steve Saleen, Founder and former Vice Chairman of Saleen, Inc., a manufacturer of specialty vehicles including the Saleen S1, Saleen S7 and highly modified Ford Mustangs.

Mr. Daspin recognizes the power of collaboration through joint ventures as a means to achieve goals efficiently while fostering strong partnerships along the way. In alignment with this mindset, he finds inspiration in the timeless wisdom of this “Self-Reliance,” passage:

“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as is his portion; that though the wide world is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn shall he reap; but through his own toil bestowed on that plot of ground which was given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature; and none but he knows what he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.“

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mr. Daspin is now semi-retired but still passionate about sharing his knowledge as a mentor, consultant, and deal maker.

On February, 14th 2008 Mr. Daspin’s beloved son Jeremy passed on from terminal liver cancer and on January 20, 2022, his beloved wife of 59 years, Joan. Mr. Daspin is a dedicated philanthropist. His family intends to help eradicate devastating diseases by making donations totaling upwards of $1 million. If you have a treatment that requires funding and can provide evidence that it has successfully overcome key hurdles toward FDA approval, please reach out to Mr. Daspin. He is always open to supporting worthy causes.