Our managing partners have lead companies through Business, Operations and Technology due-diligence in multiple Series rounds that have separately led to investment by Institutional, Family Office and Strategic investors whom are based in the Midwest and on both East and West coasts.
Our experience extends to working with Third Party’s such as Deloitte and E&Y in due diligence, to a career of driving excellence in execution with Blue-Chip clients in Retail, Commercial, Industrial and Institutional Residential.
Our managing partners bring a unique combination of entrepreneurship, technical expertise and product development as well as a grasp of the necessary agility in scaling a high-growth company. They have lead product and team certifications representing best practices in governance and risk management as well as gained and maintained SOC Controls for core business activities.
DV Partners has seen to apply its winning formula of Technology Expertise and Development with Operations and Entrepreneurship to create an ecosystem of value generation.
In their career, our managing partners have delivered innovative solutions for enterprise property management and reimagined systems purposed to strengthen the value proposition in the creation of a dual marketplace business; the independent contractor and the client. The success in the pursuance of this disruptive technology platform to support integrated management of Property Management services is realized by SMS Assist, LLC through its growth, profitability and multiple successful strategic Investment rounds.
Under the leadership of the founding partners of DVP, overseen was development of a globally awarded technology solution in Commercial and Institutional Residential sectors with 500,000+ users that included business modules for all functional areas of an infrastructure. This was a solution for Service Contractors & their workforce, Commercial workforce and Institutional Residential workforce.
DVP managing partner Mike Rothman founded SMS Assist leveraging new technologies to deliver transparency, cost-value and control for clients and affiliates alike. Under his leadership, SMS Assist transformed into one of the fastest-growing technology companies globally, and Mike brought the Company to “Unicorn” status; Mike as CEO and Alex as Chief Product officer founding Operations and Technology teams. Mike continues to serve as Chairman of the board, and Alex as a Board Manager.
In 2016, the same year DVP managing partner Mike Rothman was named a Midwest Entrepreneur of the Year and also a national finalist by Ernst & Young, SMS Assist received $150 million in Series D funding at a $1 billion valuation from Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, the same team that invested in Uber, Facebook, Pinterest and Spotify.
With the firsthand experience of founding, leading and successfully scaling a company to “Unicorn” status, DV Partners looks to partner with a CEO and Management to provide insight, resources and a path to sustainable value creation.
Mr. Rothman founded and served as Chairman and CEO of SMS Assist, leading and successfully scaling the company to “Unicorn” status.
Michael Rothman
Michael Rothman has over 25 years of experience in the industrial service sector and 10 years in the retail services industry. Mr. Rothman served as chairman and CEO of SMS Assist, L.L.C. since its startup to May 2017. Mr. Rothman currently serves as chairman.
Mr. Rothman founded SMS Assist with six employees to the 900+ employee enterprise firm it is today. Under his leadership, SMS Assist transformed into one of the fastest-growing technology companies globally.
In 2016, the same year Rothman was named a Midwest Entrepreneur of the Year and also a national finalist by Ernst & Young, SMS Assist received $150 million in Series D funding at a $1 billion valuation from Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, the same team that invested in Uber, Facebook, Pinterest and Spotify. SMS Assist has received the Momentum Award for its technology.
Mr. Rothman transformed the business from a traditional brick and mortar service company into an advanced technology company whose mobile and cloud-based facilities maintenance platform manages over 28,000 affiliated providers to service a nationwide roster of Fortune 500 retail and industrial clients representing over 140,000 locations.
SMS Assist’s proprietary technology provides vendor management, logistics planning, real-time order tracking, predictive modeling and electronic invoicing to deliver on-time, best-in-class service to every location, every time. A leader in facilities management, SMS Assist and its affiliated providers execute millions of services annually while delivering significant cost savings to their clients.
Michael Rothman
Michael Rothman has over 25 years of experience in the industrial service sector and 10 years in the retail services industry. Mr. Rothman served as chairman and CEO of SMS Assist, LLC. since its startup in 2003 to May 2017. Mr. Rothman currently serves as chairman.
Alex Rothman is the founder and CEO of Theron Technology Solutions.
Alex Rothman
Alex Rothman is the founder and CEO of Theron Technology Solutions, which deploys a unified team will provide end-to-end strategy and technology expertise to identify, interpret and implement efficiencies that propel business forward.
He was formerly Chief Product Officer for SMS Assist, helping it grow into a leading cloud-based property management platform. Mr. Rothman continuously reviewed the needs of the business to reimagine systems purposed to strengthen the value proposition to its dual marketplace; the independent contractor and the client. The success in the pursuance of this disruptive technology platform to support integrated management of basic FM services is realized by SMS Assist through its favorable CAGR.
Mr. Rothman founded the technology teams at SMS Assist, delivering innovative solutions for enterprise property management. During his decade as chief product officer, he leveraged new technologies to deliver transparency, cost-value and control for customers. In his role at SMS Assist he oversaw more than 1.7 million hours of technology development and oversight generating business solutions for more than 20,000 certified affiliate contractors representing an estimated 500,000 technicians across 45 service lines in six industries at greater than 140,000 client locations.
His ingenuity and leadership helped SMS Assist earn recognition for being in the Built in Chicago’s list of Top 100 Digital Companies in Chicago in both 2015 and 2016, and Alex is among the 2017 Digital Edge 50 award winners. SMS Assist was also recognized with the Moxie Award for Best Enterprise Web Company in 2015 and the Chicago Innovation Award for Technology in 2012.
In addition, he brings expertise in helping grow SMS Assist into a leading cloud-based property management platform, contributing to its recognition the past two years as one of Forbes World’s Best 100 Cloud Companies, ranked No. 33 this year, and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 recipient for three consecutive years.
Rothman graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with concentrations in both Finance and Entrepreneurship. In the study of the volatility of the capital markets and data-driven approach utilized to drive efficiencies by operating businesses, Mr. Rothman sought to explore the opportunity in other sectors where waste could be removed through the application of technology.
In addition to his role at Theron Technology Solutions, he is managing partner of Discidium Venture Partners, Private Equity focused on high growth companies disrupting markets, and remains an SMS Assist board member and stakeholder.
Alex Rothman
Alex Rothman is the founder and CEO of Theron Technology Solutions, which deploys a unified team will provide end-to-end strategy and technology expertise to identify, interpret and implement efficiencies that propel business forward.
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