Team

The members of the OCA Ventures team have a passion for building early-stage companies into market leaders, have long histories working with one another, and share common core personal and professional beliefs, while at the same time contributing different skills and perspectives.

This cohesive group has close business and personal relationships dating back more than 25 years.  John Dugan, Peter Ianello and Marc Berman were partners in the 1980s when they led O’Connor & Associates. Jim Dugan is John Dugan’s third son, Jason Heltzer joined the team in 2001, Joe Dwyer joined in 2009, David Zyer joined in 2009 and Gabe Greenbaum joined in 2011.




Gabe Greenbaum - Senior Associate

Gabe Greenbaum is a Senior Associate with OCA Ventures and has been working at OCA since 2011.  He has been involved in the financing, strategy and operations of various technology, energy/clean-technology and business service companies over the past 10 years.

Prior to joining OCA Ventures, Gabe worked as a management consultant for AlixPartners and began his career as a financial analyst with ABN AMRO Bank.  While in graduate school, he founded StudentSpace LLC, a Chicago-based lead generation, brokerage, and investment group focused on the student housing market.

Gabe holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of management, and a law degree from the Northwestern University School of Law.  He received his B.A. with honors from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was President of his graduating class.  He is a member of the Non-Profit Board of Chicago Professionals for Youth (CPY) and Indego Africa.  Gabe lives in downtown Chicago with his wife, Emma, who is a teacher with the Chicago Public School system.

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