Professional

Dan has over 20 years of progressively successful experience in sales, management, mid-size and small business development in multiple industries. He has been a managing partner of a telecommunications company and started a company from scratch as recently as 2005 and successfully sold it in today’s market. Through this business journey, he mastered:

  • Learning new industries, products, and services in just 90 days.
  • Creating productive and profitable relationships in little time.
  • Recruiting, training, and managing staff.
  • Difficulties of managing non-productive workers out of organizations.
  • Financing, budgeting, and fiscal responsibility.
  • Revenue and job creation where others had failed before him.
  • Integrity in transactions that strive to bring mutually beneficial results.
  • Negotiating with major companies to produce win-win solutions.
  • Delivering Solutions and Results.

One benefit Dan recognizes from business that would be critical to his success as Governor is that results don’t depend on one party winning over another but that the needs of the customer, in this case you the Colorado voter, should transcend political differences. Dan thinks the Governor’s position is an executive position demanding executive skills. He has those skills.

Public Service

Public Service means different things to many people. For some it is quiet service in churches and community groups. For others it may be leadership in civic and professional groups. Yet in the context of politics it means running for and preferably having served in a political position. For Dan service has most often been in quieter, less public arenas due to the high stress and demand of his business pursuits. Here are examples of such service:

  • Boy Scout Leadership as a teen and in his early 20’s.
  • Volunteer work at his church during college 1981-83.
  • Vista Village Town Home Assn director. 1993-94.
  • Jeffco Republicans in 1994-95.
  • Bergen Creek Home Owners Director 1994-95.
  • Industry Task Force Leader 1997.
  • Rotary International 2000-01, Program Director 2003-05.
  • Instructor for adult education classes and many other roles at his church 2000-07.
  • Interim Church Administrator 2005-06.
  • Girls Softball Coach 2008.
  • Colorado GOP 2009.

As you can see, Dan takes his public service and volunteering seriously and it has been a part of his life, almost continuously, since childhood.

Family

Dan knows the impact of not having a father around as he grew up. He was fortunate to make the right choices with the guidance of scout leaders, sports coaches, and a pastor as substitutes.

He has striven to make sure his children would not experience that same lack of love, instruction, support, as well as secular and spiritual guidance in their lives. To Dan, Tee Time has to do with small plastic dishes around a toddler sized table with pretend Tea rather than 5 hours away from family.

Dan will be an advocate for struggling families and a role model for those who think they have good reasons to go bad. He had those same reasons, but made the right choices.