David Walsh

David Walsh is the managing partner for Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ growth equity activities.

Mr. Walsh has a record of successfully starting, acquiring and turning around technology and telecommunications companies. Previously, Mr. Walsh worked in corporate finance at Ernst & Young. In 1988, he became a partner in the buyout fund Maiden Lane Associates. In 1991, Mr. Walsh acquired a bankrupt technology company, Card*Tel Inc., and later sold the company to Transaction Network Services, Inc. at a ten times return for shareholders. Mr. Walsh continued to develop the business for TNS until 1999, when TNS was acquired by PSINet. Mr. Walsh then started FortuneLinX, a provider of real-time revenue assurance systems to the telecommunications sector, which was acquired two years later.

Mr. Walsh graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Geneseo and obtained his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.