Dan Eldridge Email & Phone Number

Des Plaines, Il

Building on the firm foundation of a 60 year old business and working closely with my talented managers and staff, I've brought Illinois' first 5 star range to the next level. Fully implemented EOS, beautifully renovated range, classrooms, bathrooms, and lobby, first-of-a-kind eCommerce showing in-store inventory, popular shopping and range use by appointment system, and Hubspot CRM and CMS have enabled us to double revenue and while preserving margins. We're not done.Next up is expansion via ground-up or acquisition with a goal of one additional Chicagoland shop and range plus one outside this market by mid 2024. Maxon is the premier gun shop and indoor range in the Chicago area, and we've built the scalable systems to fuel explosive growth and new locations.Our purpose is to grow, broaden and empower OUR community by providing THE place to experience the shooting sports.

President and founding board member of Illinois Firearms Dealer Association and lobby group. FFL-IL (fflil.org) has the Sisyphean task of protecting the rights of lawful firearms dealers in Illinois, and is the only industry organization with full-time presence in Springfield.When the General Assembly passed their Gun Dealer Licensing bill despite ouir objections, we worked with ILGA and Illinois State Police leadership to ensure the rules associated with this Act were ones our dealer members could survive.

Naperville, Illinois, United States

General Manager and owner of the Midwest Distributor for Diamond Aircraft; I built and manage the Salesforce Enterprise system, and am solely responsible for all sales management, direct mail and electronic marketing. Mid 2008 through now have been challenging for general aviation manufacturing and sales, yet Great Lakes Diamond has both remained profitable and maintained new aircraft value during this period by operating efficiently and effectively, finding the right balance between a right-sized sales force and top-notch customer support.

Providing Data warehousing, tools and API access to high frequency financial markets data including TAQ in milliseconds and historical Options Tick from OPRA feed. Solutions include feed adapters and mapping of live data to historical tick stores for realtime modeling, transaction cost audit, and direct user access.

Researched and deployed Exchange Traded Fund Basis Model for large CTA/Hedge fund.

Business development and sales for venture-funded derivatives exchange/clearinghouse

Authored and executed black-box futures trading systems

Engineered r/t risk management solution for CPO; Responsible for allocations to traders from $300 million fund.

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