David Dillon

Co-Founder and Senior Managing Partner, Dillon Kane Group; Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Together Chicago

For more than 30 years David has been applying advanced technology concepts and solutions for the financial industry and beyond. As the CIO at CRT (a leading Chicago-based derivatives firm sold to Nations Bank), David led a global technology organization that built and supported real-time pricing, trade execution, and risk management capabilities that were instrumental in CRT’s success and ultimate sale. At Nations Bank and then Bank of America, David was a leader in the Global Corporate and Investment Bank in finding innovative technology solutions for complex corporate banking problems. David then ran the New Ventures Group for Citadel Investment Group in Chicago before forming the Dillon Kane Group in 2001 with his partner Don Kane. The Dillon Kane Group acquires, builds and incubates software-based businesses and has grown over the last 22 years to have housed 12 innovative software businesses with over 600 corporate clients and 400 plus associates in offices around the world. One of the largest businesses (Tidal Software) was sold in Jan. 2023 to Redwood/Turn River a private equity firm based in CA.

As a long time Chicago native, David was moved to think and pray about what could be done about the root causes of violence in Chicago in 2016 with other like-minded Chicago area leaders. That led to the formation of a new non-profit organization named Together Chicago in 2017 by David and his Co-Founder, Pastor Michael Allen. David is the Co-CEO of Together Chicago which now has 66 staff members across five focus areas of work which are Economic Development, Education, Violence Reduction, Gospel Justice Centers and Faith Community Mobilization.

David Dillon grew up in Japan as the youngest son of career missionaries. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife Michele and has two grown daughters and a 4-year-old granddaughter. David is an alumnus of Wheaton College and Northern Illinois University as well as the DePaul University Graduate School of Business. He is an elder at Covenant Presbyterian Church of Chicago in Bucktown where he has attended for 40 years. David is also the Chairman of the Board of a global non-profit based in New York called Redeemer City to City that has helped to launch and support over 1,000 churches around the world. He also serves on the Board and is active in the Chicago Fellowship.