What People Are Saying About Dolphin

"Dolphin Equity Partners is among the very best, if not the best I have worked with. Small growth firms in our business need a lot more than cash - we need governance, team building, help with value creation, strategy and more. Dolphin Equity Partners accomplished all this while empowering management." Chand Vyas
Chairman & CEO. Mobile Armor, Inc.

Richard J. Brekka

Richard J. Brekka
Managing Partner

Richard Brekka founded Dolphin Equity Partners in 1998. Richard has specialized in software as a service, mobile content, communication services, and internet investing for over 20 years.

He currently is on the boards of several Dolphin portfolio companies. Mr. Brekka is on the board of Overtone Inc. (a social media and enterprise feedback management solution), Mobile Armor (a leading provider of enterprise mobile data security), Silver Carrot (an online lead generation and content provider), Terago, Inc (TSX:TGO, Canada's leading wireless broadband service provider to businesses), Appia (a national voice over IP service provider to businesses), and Mr. Brekka is Chairman of the Board of Rate Integration (a customer loyalty management solutions provider to mobile carriers). Previously, Mr. Brekka was a board member of Enpocket, Inc. (a provider of carrier-grade mobile media, mobile marketing and mobile advertising services) until it was sold to Nokia, Inc. in 2007, and Chairman of the Board of Gomez, Inc.(the leader in web application experience management) until its sale to Compuware in 2009.

Prior to founding Dolphin, Richard was a Managing Director of CIBC's private equity investment unit and the President of CIBC's U.S. private equity investment subsidiaries. While there, he was a director on the board of 10 communications companies. Representative investments included Telesystems International Wireless, Orion Network Systems, Transit Communications and OneComm Communications. Prior to CIBC, Richard was with Chase Capital and led the investments in Nextel and DisCom Communications.

Richard holds a BS Finance from the University of Southern California and a MBA from the University of Chicago.