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DFE Capital Management is the direct investing arm of DF Enterprises, a single family office managing the assets of Campbell Soup heir Bennett Dorrance. The firm has significant exposure to the consumer food space. DFE Capital Management takes an opportunistic approach to investing, looking to partner with high quality growth and later stage private businesses that are ready to disrupt a growing addressable market, have strong conscientious management teams and an aligned and dedicated investor base. The grandson of John T. Dorrance, the inventor of condensed soup, Bennett Dorrance owns a 15% stake in Campbell Soup. Dorrance is a founding partner of DMB Associates https://dmbinc.com/, a real estate development firm with projects in Arizona, Utah, California and Hawaii. According to Forbes he is worth just shy of $3B. A licensed pilot, Dorrance owns a private hangar in Scottsdale, Arizona that sometimes houses his vintage car collection. Dorrance serves on the Board of Directors of TGen, a genomics research corporation, Insight Enterprises, Inc., The Nature Conservancy Arizona and Campbell Soup Company and is active in a number of professional, civic and community organizations. He has also been involved as a board member of Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management, Phoenix Country Day School and the Desert Botanical Garden.
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