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Dan is the CEO of SpringCM, the leading contract management app and enterprise document management platform company. Integrated tightly with Salesforce, SpringCM serves over 600 customers in commercial and public sector markets. As a Venture Partner at R7 Partners, a Chicago- early stage venture capital firm, Dan helps fund, inspire and enable ambitious innovators. Dan serves on the boards of Samanage, the leading IT service management app company and SalesHood, the leading mobile sales enablement platform company. As President of Ensighten, a digital marketing software company, Dan ran customer-facing operations including sales, marketing, and services and grew revenues by 4X in 2 years. For over 11 years, Dan built and led Salesforce sales teams in the central US and nationwide. After joining Salesforce.com in 2002 when they had fewer than 150 employees and less than $50M in annual revenue, Dan helped fuel Salesforce.com’s growth to over 12,000 employees, over $4B in annual revenue, and 150,000+ customers. As a member of the founding management team of Synchrony (sold in 2001 to Divine), Dan was the EVP of WW Sales & Services. Dan’s sales career has also included successful leadership roles at Siebel Systems, Sybase, and Oracle -- all during their IPO and expansion phases. After earning his bachelor’s degree in General Engineering/Computer Science from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dan earned a master’s degree in management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. At the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul Univ., Dan is a frequent guest lecturer. Dan is also an Executive Mentor at the Junto Institute and 1871, the startup accelerator in the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center. His civic roles include the Cara Program fighting homelessness and poverty in Chicago. Dan, his wife, and their five children live in St. Charles, IL.Company Spotlight in Tech
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