ABOUT

Dan has a diversified career successfully advising corporate executives and startup founders to scale their businesses during periods of transition and exponential growth.  He is an expert in both startups and high growth businesses within eCommerce, SaaS, marketplace, payments, mobile apps, and energy.

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He excels at strategic forecasts, business planning, KPIs and provides sound, honest, and ethical advice.  He has worked at companies of all sizes and also has significant experience as a Co-Founder in multiple businesses.  He excels at building and presenting investor and board decks, raising capital and leading M&A.  

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Dan is based in Miami and has previously lived in Boston, Austin, and Santa Barbara. He has an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship and a Masters of Science in Information Systems from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Brandeis University and studied Spanish at the University of Salamanca in Spain.  

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He has held senior leadership roles with BigCommerce, ezCater, and Constant Contact where he reported to various members of the Executive Team for each company.  His strengths in these spaces include retention, acquisition, customer experience, forecasting, business planning and analysis.  

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In 2012 he Co-Founded the fast casual pizza chain, Persona Wood Fired Pizzeria. He led fundraising and then a merger with Firenza Pizza and the development of 35 units in just 3 years.  In addition to working as the CFO, Dan led all technology efforts including oversight of the website, online ordering, POS implementations, and product management of the mobile app, integrations and marketing automation. 

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His first job after business school was as an Industry Analyst in Telecom and Media for Pyramid Research.  Dan was often interviewed in the press about his market research publications and was a featured Analyst on Bloomberg TV.  He was also a guest speaker at mobile broadband and IoT conferences around the world.  

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Dan enjoys family, travel, investing, kayaking, hiking, sports, beer, comedy, astronomy, physics and his dog Latke.