Barry Dickstein

Barry Dickstein is a partner of CYPF Manager III LLC, which manages CYwP Fund III.
Barry Dickstein has nearly three decades of experience in investment banking, business transactions and managing successful companies.
He was a Development Director in the Washington, DC Financial Institutions Group of Houlihan Lokey, an international investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, valuation, financial restructuring and strategic consulting.
Dickstein is also a principal shareholder of Comsource, one of the largest residential property management firms in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Comsource currently manages more than 20,000 units in more than 150 properties.
Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Dickstein was a Managing Director at Milestone Advisors (acquired by Houlihan Lokey in 2012), where he specialized in providing mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and restructuring advisory services to middle market companies.
During his tenure, Dickstein was involved in the capital formation and launch of Blackstreet Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in underperforming corporate orphans with up to $150 million in revenue.
To date, Blackstreet has invested in 30 companies with combined sales in excess of $1.5 billion and more than 8,000 employees.
Dickstein is the co-founder and former principal of The McLean Group, an independent investment bank that provides mergers and acquisitions, business valuation and strategic consulting services to middle market businesses.
He is a founding shareholder and serves on the Board of Directors for Zenetex, a government services contractor that was listed in Washington Business Journal’s Fast 50 for 2012, 2013 and 2014.
He received his B.S.
in finance from The University of Maryland.