Biography
Dan has over 22 years of experience in business development, marketing, sales, engineering, and operations in high-growth technology companies, creating over $1B in shareholder value.
Currently, Dan is the President & CEO of eSight Corporation, a privately funded medical devices start-up company focused on helping people with low vision maximize the use of their remaining functional sight and helping those with normal vision to enhance their sight. He is also the CEO-in-Residence at Communitech, and part of the Venture Services team there.
In addition to the above, Dan also sits on the Board of Directors of the Ottawa Technology Transfer Network (OTTN), an organization responsible for building an informal collaboration among academic technology transfer offices in Ottawa to enhance the economic impact of research commercialization through the sharing of best practices; enhanced market knowledge and proactive industrial interaction, and on the Board of Directors of the Acheson Lewis Vision Improvement Foundation, a non-profit, independent organization whose mission is to restore some of the quality of life that has been stolen from those who suffer profound, inoperable loss of vision, by ensuring access to the most appropriate vision correction aids available. To that end, the Foundation provides funding to help those with vision impairments acquire the corrective solution that best suits their individual conditions and needs - while at the same time supporting research aimed at the prevention and correction of eyesight impairments
Prior to eSight, Dan was President and CEO of IceFyre Inc., a venture backed start-up company, where he led the company in building a business providing high performance, low power semiconductor products for 802.11 wireless multimedia consumer electronics applications.
Prior to IceFyre, Dan was senior vice president and general manager, Semiconductor Division, at MOSAID Technologies Inc., a Canadian public company. While there, Dan led the successful development of the company's fabless semiconductor product business and its patent licensing business. Under Dan's leadership, the company built a very successful patent licensing business, which secured patent licensing agreements with five of the world's top semiconductor manufacturers, and developed multiple semiconductor product lines targeted for the networking system OEMs market.
Previously, Dan held a series of increasingly senior positions with Celestica Inc. and IBM Canada.
Dan holds a master of business administration from York University and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University.
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