Dan McGlinn
Dan is driven to apply his life experiences to help have a positive impact on people and on the planet. He’s been fortunate to be trusted with responsibility throughout his career, starting businesses, investing, and taking on trusted, key-node roles. These challenges gave him the tools to create from scratch.
He has passionately built up functions from zero to one across sales, product development, strategic initiatives, hiring, and more. Dan is a purpose-driven, practical operator who nerds out creating processes and organizing people and systems. One of his superpowers is a logical, objective ability to distill problems down to their root issues, then applying creative solutions to execute a plan of attack.
Dan loves enabling others to do their best. He’s driven by seeing both business and people have a clarity of purpose. Personally, he values health, adventure, integrity, curiosity, and empathy. He lives in Philly with his girlfriend. He graduated Notre Dame with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Personal growth is a never-ending journey that he enjoys daily; other personal hobbies are coaching water polo, triathlons, crosswords, and reading.
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