Profile: Daniel Kite

Daniel Kite is President and Managing Partner of Sun Street LLC, an affiliate of Chicagoland Sunbelt. Chicagoland Sunbelt is part of the Sunbelt Network which is the world’s largest business brokerage firm. Sun Street LLC was formed as a partnership between Mr. Kite and Chicagoland Sunbelt to expand Sunbelt’s rapidly growing brokerage firm into the downtown Chicago market.

Dan has twenty years of entrepreneurial business experience and is considered an expert in business development, franchising, retail operations, technology development and real estate development. Dan began his career working with his family’s business. The business, the Marcus Corporation based in Milwaukee, WI, is the sixth largest movie theatre chain in the country and owns or operates over sixteen full service hotels.

He has owned, developed, operated, and sold his own businesses, including a chain of Blockbuster Video stores, Screenz Computing Centers, and Tailor’s Touch. He has also founded two software companies and has licensed his technology to Fortune 500 companies throughout the nation. Dan has been both a franchisee and a franchisor giving him a unique perspective on the world of franchising. Dan most recently spent five years as a Director of a private equity firm.

Daniel Kite holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University where he graduated, Magna Cum Laude.