Dan joined Iconoculture as CEO in December 2002. Formerly CEO of Techies.com (1998 to 2001), he raised over $100M in venture capital and grew the company from less than $1M in sales to over $30M in two years. Techies.com filed an S-1 to become a public company but withdrew in Spring 2000 due to poor market conditions.

From August 1996 to July 1998, Dan was a senior vice president of Channel Strategies at Gartner Group, where he was responsible for helping to re-architect the distribution strategy for Gartner. In 1989, Dan was a founder and president of J3 Learning Corp., a technology-based computer-training developer/marketer based in Minneapolis. He remained there until 1996, when the corporation was sold to the Gartner Group.

Dan also served for seven years as an aircraft carrier fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy, flying active missions throughout the Middle East and Africa. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and the U.S. Naval Academy.