Todd co-founded Silversmith Capital Partners in 2015 and focuses on building lasting partnerships with exceptional entrepreneurs within the AI & Technology sectors. He spends the majority of his time in product-led growth platforms and data-intensive business models in compliance and risk markets, partnering with domain-expert founders to help them scale their companies to market leadership. Over the course of his career, he has been fortunate to be the first institutional investor in SurveyMonkey, Wrike, ActiveCampaign, DistroKid and Zonos, among others.
Todd’s first job was working in his local hardware (nuts & bolts not servers) store, lugging 80-pound bags of concrete and repairing torn window screens. His career in growth equity began over thirty years ago when he convinced Summit Partners the best way to stop his continued, non-stop pestering would be to hire him. A native Bostonian, Todd spent several years in Silicon Valley helping to lead Accel’s Growth Fund before returning to the East Coast and Bain Capital, where he was colleagues with college friend and current partner Jeff Crisan.
Todd lives in the metrowest Boston suburbs with his wife and two children. He currently serves on the board of trustees at The Belmont Hill School and is actively involved with the non-profit Boston Community Pediatrics. A recovering English major, he is an avid reader across all genres, specifically modern fiction, and is slowly sliding back into the misery of being a Red Sox fan that plagued his youth. Despite current appearances and to the astonishment of many, Todd has both summitted Mt. Kilimanjaro and, while in college, been a member of a (since-broken) team world record for the continuous rowing of one million meters on a single ergometer. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, he proudly maintains a near-perfect Uber rating.
Education
MBA with Honors from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
AB, cum laude, in English from Dartmouth College
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