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Dan
Poortenga, Vice President

Dan has participated in dozens of transactions involving
manufacturing, distribution and service businesses.
He is particularly sensitive to the issues involved
in family businesses, having grown up in a successful
local family businessone that was eventually
sold to a buyer from outside the family. Additionally,
Dan has over 10 years of experience working in a senior
position with small to medium-sized businesses in
the financial services and manufacturing fields. Prior
to joining the Charter Group, Dan was the Director
of International Sales & Marketing for a well-known,
high-end furniture manufacturer, and was involved
in negotiating distribution agreements with dealers
and distributors in the Middle East, Eastern and Western
Europe, Southeast Asia, and South America.

Dan has a BA from Calvin College, a law degree (JD)
and MBA from Suffolk University in Boston, and is
admitted to the bar in Michigan and Massachusetts.
He is a member and past Treasurer of the Henry Beets
Mission Society at LaGrave Christian Reformed Church
and sits on the Board of Trustees of the Ryerson Library
Foundation in Grand Rapids, MI. Dan and his wife reside
in East Grand Rapids with their four young children.

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