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Dan is a distinguished AI Champion, recently honored as one of the AI75 Top Artificial Intelligence Innovators in Dallas-Fort Worth by Dallas Innovates, the Dallas Regional Chamber, and Dallas AI. Dan founded the AI CONNEX, a global AI community that aims to connect people, help businesses to find the right partners that help solve problems using AI and latest technologies. He also has a passion for innovation, collaboration, and making impact to the communities. - Founder: Established AI CONNEX with a mission to democratize access to AI, particularly for underrepresented groups. Addresses the trust issue in AI by connecting businesses and individuals with reliable AI solutions. - Purpose-Driven Innovator: Believes in doing things for a purpose beyond business, aiming to uplift communities and foster trust through AI.- AI Consulting: Providing consulting and implementation services with specialization in computer vision, Gen AI and ML technologies for various verticals such as construction, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and finance.*2021-2024: Play a key role in driving sales for Cubro in the Americas (Canada, US, and LATAM) directly and through channel partners for FSI, healthcare, manufacturing, automotive, SLED, and key service provider accounts.• Develop joint solutions and GTM plans with strategic technology partners, including Fortinet, Trellix, Extrahop, EXFO, Palo Alto, Cisco, Splunk, Endace, Ocient, Elisa Polystar, Nokia, Ericsson, Telestream, Witfoo, Impelix IMPACT, etc.

Worked across global locations (Singapore, Thailand, and US HQ) to assist Keysight and IXIA Solutions Group in growing partnerships with Global System Integrators and Technology Partners (ISV, MSP, Cloud, and Security vendors) to support key industry verticals.• Ensured long-term solution success by devising and executing Go-to-Market strategies and technical workshops to consistently design and evolve the best-in-class integrated solutions with GSI partners.• Defined how IXIA complimented, optimized, and differentiated Global Solutions Provider’s Go-to-Market strategy, solutions, and services while training the IXIA sales team on the Global Solutions Provider strategy and integrated solutions.• Increased sales revenue by supporting and enabling global partners’ sales teams, developed new resell opportunities and global agreements, and led internal sales planning workshops to grow integrated solution sales.

Built the Japanese accounts and Enterprise sales teams and cultivated relationships with multinational corporations in Thailand and other APAC countries while defining vertical expertise areas such as automotive, retail, online business, and manufacturing.• Oversaw the NTT Group Alliance in Thailand to generate more cross-sell activities among the group companies, engaging in major activities such as NTT Group Executive Round Table, joint CSR (Ride-to-School), etc.• Established joint solution workgroups between NTT Com, NTT Data, and DD that focused on SAP, security, and automotive to position NTT Group as the end-to-end solution provider for clients in Thailand.• Served as Head of Strategy in 2017 (temporary assignment), working with the management team and regional HQ to develop a 3–5-year country strategy and align key choices on primary focus areas by BU, verticals, and segments.HIGHLIGHTS• Directed an enterprise sales team of 6 sales and 2 presales executives at Dimension Data and continuously coached and trained team members while growing revenue by 3X• Penetrated a new strategic global account (Agoda.com), winning the largest single deal in professional services and multi-million in product sales at Dimension Data while building a pipeline of strategic global accounts worth $10M+ in FY18.• Drove 3x growth in cross-sell TCV between NTT Com Thailand and DD Thailand from 2014 to 2016 while delivering 10x growth through the major Thai bank DC project to reach ~$50M in TCV for cross-sell in 2017.• Spearheaded the collaboration between NTT Com and DD to win Japanese bank DC, Managed Network Services, and Cisco UC project together in 2015.

Developed plans, created targets, and established the company’s vision for growth in Japan while ensuring the Japan branch’s compliance with local laws and practices and implementing standards and documentation of local operations to align with global procedures.• Interviewed and hired new employees while examining and providing recommendations for HR policies in Japan (such as payroll, social insurance, workers policies, etc.).• Drove business development efforts with key global accounts (AT&T, ATOS, etc.) and cultivated robust relationships with local partners/vendors while supporting clients with the RFP bid and modeling the proposal to increase its technical and commercial viability.• Proposed various services of NSC (CPE installation, managed services, hardware procurement, global maintenance contract or resources) to the clients and built strong partnerships that enabled each other to secure more business from end customers.

Led a team of 3 salespersons, 3 administrators, and 80 dispatched staff working at customer sites while addressing questions/concerns from employees regarding HR policies, serving as first-level compliance, and reviewing all sales contracts in English and Japanese.• Developed sales forecasts and reports for management, examining results weekly, monthly, and annually while successfully directing the sales division in complying with and applying the PrivacyMark standards.• Engaged with multiple stakeholders, from business to technical, while managing expectations, providing reports to local and global teams, and directing 300+ staff, including onsite engineers, vendors, and remote engineers in 80 locations.• Delivered ~25% of EP Consulting’s revenues for 3 consecutive years while leading sales operations in Japan with Dell US to win a global deal worth 40M Yen for a major insurance company’s separation project in 2010 (with 13K users and 300 engineers).

International Affairs Division, Governor's Office, Toyama Prefectural Government[Governmental Exchange Program - Representing State of Oregon]

General Commodity Department(Internship)