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Dan Grunberg Dan is President of Chainwave Systems, Inc. a technology-consulting firm, and has been an investor and advisor to several early-stage technology companies. He has been involved in the founding of several companies, from software to insurance, materials science, and accounting. From 1995-1996, Dan was the Embedded Systems Manager at Pixel Magic Inc. in Andover where he was responsible for the development of board level image processing systems. Prior to these ventures, he transformed Jackson Hewitt Tax Service into a major competitor in electronic tax preparation. Jackson Hewitt was a small regional tax service in Virginia in 1988 when Dan formed a team that developed its next generation technology infrastructure. The software eventually included federal and state tax preparation, electronic filing, and financial processing, enabling the company to compete with the industry giant H&R Block. The company went public in 1992, and Dan served as a Director and the Vice President of Technology from 1992 to 1995. The company was sold to Cendant in November 1997 for $480 million and now has over 3000 offices. | 