Dan is a corporate and securities law professor currently serving as Associate Dean, Academic and as the Chair in Business Law & Regulation in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. Dan also serves as the Project Lead of the Financial Markets Regulation Program in the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy.
Dan is a member of the Securities Advisory Committee of the Alberta Securities Commission and the author of annual reference text Alberta Annotated Securities Legislation published by Lexis/Nexis, which is now in its seventh year of publication. Dan is also the author of a variety of peer-reviewed articles in the area of financial regulation, in particular focusing on novel ideas for rejuvenating Canadian public markets.
Dan returned to academia in the past few years after an extensive career as a corporate lawyer, senior business executive and serial entrepreneur spanning more than three decades. Dan previously served as a law clerk to G.V. La Forest in the Supreme Court of Canada, an associate in a national law firm, a partner in a Calgary-based corporate law boutique, President of two junior public technology companies, an executive in a variety of multinational businesses, and co-founder of several start-up business ventures. In the course of his business and legal endeavors, Dan has had the opportunity to travel more than 2.5 million miles to over 80 countries. While focused primarily on his teaching, research and administrative obligations within academia, Dan continues to advise select start-up and growth-stage companies on business and legal issues.
In addition to his business and educational activities, Dan serves in a number of pro bono capacities with various not-for-profit organizations throughout Alberta and in Rwanda, Haiti and Uganda.