Known for being “The Ideas Guy” growing up, Dan hasn’t changed much with age and experience. An entrepreneur to the core, he’s wired to take risks, work hard and keep going. With an insatiable curiosity and, above all, a sense of playful adventure, he never loses momentum, always thinking and building on some idea in the background.Dan is one of the original pioneers of the New Zealand Salesforce services industry having completed his first implementation in early 2008. His quiet presence belies an unlimited well of projects and products he’s incubating. Highly regarded in the ecosystem, at heart Dan is a practitioner with deep expertise in architecting solutions using the Salesforce product suite.Together with Abhinav Keswani, long-time colleague and now lifetime friend, he co-founded Trineo in 2010, leading their growth journey to 80+ people across America, Australia and New Zealand. Prior to being acquired by Traction on Demand, the world's largest dedicated Salesforce partner, in 2021, Trineo boasted more than a decade of successful Salesforce deployments internationally with brands such as Fonterra, Expedia.com, ClearChannel Outdoor, Noel Leeming Group, The Warehouse, Asteron Insurance, AA Life Insurance, Spark, Vodafone.Outside of work, when he’s not biohacking his lifespan or plotting his spot on one of the first commercial flights to space, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters in their home town of Christchurch.