Q-Bank was founded by a distinguished team with over 90 years of collective experience in industry, finance, academia, government, and philanthropy. The founding principals include Richard Wirt, Dell Hines, Newton Howard, and Sergey Kanareykin who came together with the shared vision of incubating and investing in disruptive technologies.
Their vision led to collaborations involving successful tech company exits and the development of intellectual property assets in healthcare, security and intelligence, artificial intelligence, nano-materials, telecommunications, and a myriad of other areas.
Since its founding, the firm has evolved into a private equity group focused on acquiring profitable businesses and helping them generate value from Q-Bank’s repository of technology assets and capabilities.
Today, Dell Hines continues Q-Bank’s legacy in partnership with a network of investors, operators, and investment affiliates on three continents. In North America, Q-Bank invests in partnership with leading institutional family offices and committed funds with a combined $14 billion of capital.
ABOUT DELL HINES
Co-founder and Managing Partner
Mr. Hines is a private investor and entrepreneur with 24 years of global experience building companies that deliver enterprise value. He has been a trusted adviser and mentor to senior executives in delivering $1.5 billion of value to their organizations. He has P&L experience as co-founder and CEO in 6 entrepreneurial companies. He also provided leadership in the development of major corporate venturing initiatives including the launch of a new venture that generated $250 million of revenue in its first 9 months of operations.
Prior to Q-Bank, he founded Axiom Capital Services, an independent consultancy and financial advisory firm, where he led the delivery of transformational consulting programs helping clients such as American Express and XM-Satellite Radio to improve their financial performance.
Previously, he worked at Accenture in their Corporate Venturing group. He also worked as an internal consultant at 3M, where he led operational consulting assignments in manufacturing.
Mr. Hines earned an MBA from the University of Michigan, a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago and studied electrical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology.
