Daniel T. Pickett III

Daniel T. Pickett III (born July 27, 1968) is an American technology entrepreneur, and private equity investor. Pickett is the co-founder, president and CEO of , a digital behavioral health company. He is the former CEO of Hudson River Capital Holdings, a private investment company in New York. He was previously president of .

Early life and education Pickett was born in 1968 in Troy, New York. Pickett was brought up in Mechanicville, New York, a small city north of Albany, where his parents owned a liquor store. His mother was a registered nurse. Pickett received his degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in the field of Industrial and Management Engineering, where he is a member of the Board of Trustees. helps large enterprises design, build, and operate integrated technology environments.

In 1995 Pickett founded ACE Software Sciences, known for creating the MaxMilion software product. MaxMilion was acquired in 1999 by ALLTEL. Pickett joined ALLTEL with the acquisition, where he ultimately became Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Banking Solutions. nfrastructure’s clients included Adidas, Disney, and Starbucks. In 2016, was acquired by Zones, creating a $1.5 billion global technology company. In 2019, Pickett was appointed president of Zones, LLC.

Pickett left Zones at the end of 2019 to focus full time on investments in social impact companies through Hudson River Capital Holdings, his private investment company. Pickett was the first seed investor in the project, having invested millions of his own money into the company.

Pickett has been a regular political donor to Cuomo and has hosted fundraisers for Cuomo that have attracted business leaders from the greater Capital Region.

In July 2017, Pickett was named by Politico, along with 17 other donors including hedge fund managers Ronald Perelman, Steven Cohen and James Simons, as donors that have given more than $100k to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's campaign committee during his second term.

Honors and awards In November 2011, Pickett's company was named The Business Review's Company of the Year by the Albany Business Review.

In 2016, Pickett's company, was one of only 48 companies named a CRN Triple Crown Winner – placing on the Solution Provider 500 list of the largest solution providers in North America according to revenue; the Fast Growth 150, which ranks the fastest-growing solution providers; and the Tech Elite 250 solution providers, with the highest level of certifications from major vendors.