Dan is a General Partner at Alloy Ventures.  He joined Alloy in 1999. At Alloy, he focuses on investments in semiconductors, cleantech, and software-as-a-service. Before becoming a venture capitalist in 1999, he was a successful technology entrepreneur and also held a variety of executive-level Sales, Marketing, and Business Development jobs in the IT industry. In 1991, he was a co-founder of Artisan Components and served as the initial VP of Sales and Marketing. He was the VP of Business Development through the company’s initial public offering in 1998. The company was later acquired by ARM Ltd. for $1 billion.

Dan received his BA in Physics from Pomona College (1982).