Dan has spent his career finding creative ways to enable those around him to be more successful. Whether teaching people how to safely operate racecars at 130mph, training salespeople how to best help their potential customers, or building sales processes and methodologies, Dan has spent over a decade optimizing his peers’ effectiveness.

Not long after retiring his racing helmet and graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Dan “grabbed a bag” and went to work for a video game fitness startup as employee number 14. There he trained customers, managed reps, and ran a territory, exposing him to the key tenets of sales enablement and execution.

After a two-year tour fighting Congress’ dysfunction from within as a Legislative Advisor, Dan left the public sector and went to work for LivingSocial to run their technical sales training. There his role evolved into the Sr. Manager of Sales Operations, running all sales systems and technical training for the 1000+ person LivingSocial sales team.

Back home in California, Dan is now responsible for the sales strategy and execution for Optimizely, Inc. the global leader in customer experience optimization.