Dan first joined Qatalyst in 2010 and re-joined in 2019 after holding venture roles at NEA and Kleiner Perkins. His transaction experience at Qatalyst includes Afterpay’s sale to Block for $29B, Mailchimp’s sale to Intuit for $12B, Intuit’s acquisition of Credit Karma for $7.4B, Galileo’s sale to SoFi for $1.2B, Ancestry.com’s sale to Permira for $1.6B, Magma Design Automation’s sale to Synopsys for $550M, NetLogic’s sale to Broadcom for $3.9B, Autonomy’s sale to HP for $11.7B, Citrix’s acquisition of Cloud.com, Michael Rubin’s acquisition of GSI Commerce Assets from eBay to form Kynetics for $498M, Pliant Technology’s sale to SanDisk $327M, and 3PAR’s sale to HP for $2.4B.
Dan majored in finance and minored in computer science at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Joseph Wharton Scholar and a Benjamin Franklin Scholar.