Michael E. Dahl is the Managing Director of Woodside Partners, Inc., serving as an advisor and investor to manufacturing and services businesses.
Starting a career in the chemicals and plastics industry with Dow Chemical in 1979, Michael Dahl founded a subsidiary of US Intec in 1984 to manufacture specialty paints and coatings. He went on to serve as VP of Business Development for US Intec until 1989, when he became President and CEO of Eaglebrook Products, an early-stage plastics recycler and manufacturer of synthetic lumber. Dahl led the company and industry to dynamic growth until Eaglebrook was sold to US Plastic Lumber in 1999.
Subsequently Dahl has been investing and consulting with private equity firms and family offices to accelerate growth in portfolio companies. Dahl was recently a primary investor and C-Level advisor for WL Plastics Corporation during its fifteen-year rise to become the leading US processor of polyethylene pipe. He continues to serve as Chairman of trade association Alliance for Polyethene Pipe, which he co-founded.
Dahl has a strong innovation track record, proven aptitude for technical processes, and financial expertise across multiple industries, business sizes and maturities, as well as broad transactional experience as both buyer and seller. Dahl presently advises a portfolio of companies and is the current and past Director of numerous corporate and civic Boards. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Kansas State University with a concentration in Finance.