Daniel J. Duman
Senior Advisor - London

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Daniel J. Duman brings over 30 years of structured and private finance experience to TOTAL Impact Capital and the development finance sector. Dan Duman has joined TOTAL Impact Capital as a Senior Advisor focused on secondary market and M&A transaction in the impact investing sector.

Most recently, he served as a Governance Advisor to the Government of Rwanda working on behalf of the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) based in Kigali, Rwanda. In this role, he served as an advisor to the CEO of the Rwanda Development Board ("RDB") where he focused on the development of the Kigali Innovation City and the associated $250 million Angaza Innovation Fund in which he worked with the GoR to commit up to $30 million. 

From 1991 through 2014, Mr. Duman established and managed York Street Partners, a merchant banking firm focused on the US media and communications industries. During this period, the firm closed over $750 million of agency and principal transactions and delivered private equity returns in excess of three (3) times invested capital.  In 2010, the firm launched a development advisory practice where Mr. Duman served as a Senior Advisor to Community Investment Partners (“CIP”) and the Calvert Social Income Foundation. During this period, he worked on a number of domestic and international transactions and was involved in the development of several early stage impact funds. 

Prior to York Street, Mr. Duman worked in corporate finance at Barclays Bank PLC as a Vice President and at First Interstate Bank, Ltd. (Wells Fargo). In 1986-1987, he was an associate at Merrill Lynch Media Partners, an equity fund established to acquire media companies, where he arranged and structured over $350 million of principal acquisitions.  

Mr. Duman has recently completed a second Masters degree (MSc) in International Development Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In addition, he has a Masters degree from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a BA from New York University.