Dan Merritts is currently the VP of Marketing at Eduify. Previously, Dan directed product management for Zenprise’s award-winning enterprise mobile service management products. Zenprise is an early stage start-up backed by tier-one venture capital firms Bay Partners and Mayfield. Before Zenprise, Dan was a Global Product Manager and Strategist for Enterprise Management at EDS where he was responsible for driving tens of millions of technology investment globally.


Dan was previously an senior member of the global operations team at Loudcloud, a leading IT automation and managed services company, supporting customers such as: UK Government Online, Royal Mail, adidas, Sony and Ford Motor Company. His career began at Affinia, a Sequoia Capital backed start-up, which pioneered contextual web advertising and developed a predecessor to Google's AdSense.


At Santa Clara University, Dan was an accomplished national collegiate debater as well as a pioneering ethics fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. He holds two bachelor degrees, one in Economics and another in Operations Management.


Dan is a native of Colorado, but has spent most of his adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area. He enjoys photography, extreme skiing and snowboarding, scuba diving, international travel and cooking.

 

Biography

Summary

Experience ::

10 years of innovative, change-inspired experience in marketing, product managemetn and enterprise operations.


Education ::

  1.   MBA from Thunderbird

  2.   BS Economics SCU

  3.   BSc Operations Mgmt SCU


International ::

Visited or worked in over 30 countries and plan to visit a lot more.


Blog ::

Systems @ Work


Languages ::

  1.   English (Native)

  2.   Mandarin (Intermediate)

  3.   Japanese (Basic)

  4.   French (Intermediate-ish)



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