Daryl Erdman is a Senior Director of Concerto Advisors, Inc. Daryl has over 40 years of entrepreneurial management and business development experience, including founding and managing successful businesses, entrepreneurial education and venture capital investing. Daryl is a founding General Partner and a Senior Director of Concerto Venture Partners, a diversified, early-stage focused venture firm; a General Partner and past Senior Director of AAVIN Venture Capital, a sector and stage diversified venture capital/private equity fund; and, the Chairman of Strategic Growth Resources, Inc., a consortium of venture capital and private equity investors focused on identifying and funding specific business acquisitions.

From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Erdman was the Director of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center at the University of Iowa. Prior to the University of Iowa position, Daryl was the Endowed Chair in Small Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas and was Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship. Since the inception of national rankings of entrepreneurial programs in 1994, the St. Thomas program has been nationally ranked as one of the top 25 entrepreneurial programs in the country. Since 1998, the Iowa Program has been ranked as one of the top 35 entrepreneurial programs in the country. Mr. Erdman was awarded the National Federation of Independent Business Foundation's prize for entrepreneurial education curriculum design and both the University of Iowa program and the University of St. Thomas program won the National Model Program Award from the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. In 1993 he was recognized by the Kauffman Foundation's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership as one of the top 10 innovators in entrepreneurship education in the United States. In 1994 he was a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Program in the category of Supporter of Entrepreneurship.

Prior to and during his academic career, Daryl was a founder and senior executive of several companies in the grocery, restaurant, retail clothing and medical device industries. Additionally, Mr. Erdman has been directly involved with start-up and/or expansion ventures in the communications, residential and commercial property development, employment, information technology, resort, retail and manufacturing industries. He currently serves on the boards of three companies, and is a past member of the Board of regents of Luther College.

Mr. Erdman served three years as President and Chairman of OMNI, a statewide, certified development corporation and seven years on the National Advisory Board of the U.S. Small Business Administration. He was a founder and Chairman of Metro Development, a private, non-profit certified development corporation, which currently manages a $225 million small business loan portfolio and is ranked as one of the top three certified development corporations in the nation. He was on the board and chaired the business development subcommittee of Minnesota Project Innovation. Daryl is a past Chairman of the 9th Federal Reserve District's Task Force on Small Business and Economic Stability and a past delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business. Mr. Erdman was a consortium member of the ten university-based entrepreneurship centers that formed the initial entrepreneurial education advisory board for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Daryl has also served as a judge in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Program.

Daryl earned his Bachelor of Arts in Business and Math from Luther College and has an MBA degree from Michigan State University. He has studied entrepreneurship at Babson College in Boston as a Price-Babson Fellow and was awarded their Edwin M. Appel Prize in 1987 for bringing entrepreneurial vitality to academia.