Dan has been
starting & building businesses for more than 20 years.

Previously, Dan owned hyper-local media businesses from Boston to Charleston on the East Coast of the US. And before his start as an entrepreneur, Dan worked in news operations for the largest global media companies. He started his career in media as a teenager, being named executive editor of The Observer in Northern New Jersey at the age of 19. Since then, his news experience included serving as editorial-page editor for daily newspapers in New Jersey; as a New York City-based special correspondent for the Washington-based Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.; and as a news professional with Gannett Co. and Dow Jones & Co., finally as domestic equities editor for the Newswires division of The Wall Street Journal.

Dan's articles on business, technology and public policy have been published in Intellectual Capital, National Review, The Christian Science Monitor, In These Times, The Wall Street Journal, and a number of other publications.

An Eagle Scout, Dan served on the National Committee of the Order of the Arrow, the honor society of the Boy Scouts of America, and has served as an officer and board member for many local council boards of the Boy Scouts. He is a former trustee and treasurer of Rising Sun Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in New Jersey, a member of Lodge Two at the Grand Lodge of Masons of Pennsylvania, and spends considerable time traveling to and helping to support agricultural entrepreneurism in Haiti.

Dan received a BA in political science and communications from William Paterson University, and studied for an MBA in finance and economics at Baruch College — City University of New York. He’s a trustee and the treasurer for the Haitian Education and Leadership Program and a member of the board of directors for William F. Buckley’s National Review magazine.

He is an amateur jazz bassist and an avid sailor.