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Dan is a Managing General Partner at Highland focusing on technology and consumer investments with specific experience and interest in internet, digital marketing and media technologies. Dan has been actively involved in Highland's consumer investments and is Chairman of the Highland Consumer Fund Investment Committee. He currently serves on the boards of CMI Marketing, Coremetrics, GlobalStreams, Gotuit Media, Navic Networks, Qihoo, StyleFeeder, Top Ten Media, UUSee and Yoga Works of which he is a co-founder. His portfolio also includes Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ), Be Free (Nasdaq: BFRE), Digital Market (acquired by Agile Software), eToys (Nasdaq: ETYS), Fastclick (acquired by ValueClick), Gamesville (acquired by Lycos), MapQuest.com (acquired by AOL), N2 Broadband (acquired by TANDBERG Television), New York Times Digital, NextCard (Nasdaq: NXCD), NuGenesis Technologies (acquired by Waters Corporation), Quote.com (acquired by Lycos) Raindance Communications (Nasdaq: RNDC), RoweCom (Nasdaq: ROWE) and Terra Lycos (Nasdaq: TRLY). Dan has been recognized by the prestigious Forbes Midas List as one of the top venture capitalists in the industry.
Prior to joining Highland in 1996, Dan was a Partner at CMG@Ventures where he co-led the partnership's investment activities in early-stage Internet companies. While at CMG@Ventures, Dan co-founded Lycos, Inc. in June of 1995, and played an integral role from its inception to its IPO in April of 1996, and finally through its sale to Terra Networks in 2000.
Prior to joining CMG@Ventures in January of 1995, Dan was a Senior Associate at Summit Partners focusing on later-stage technology and environmental investments. He also worked at Wang Laboratories from 1983 through 1989 in a variety of sales management and sales positions.
Dan holds a BS in Computer Science from Boston College an MBA from Harvard Business School. | 