Founding Partner
Prior to founding Loyalist, Dan served as a Senior Vice President at NATIONAL Public Relations. He draws on his policy, communications, and strategy knowledge to help Loyalist Public Affairs clients succeed in an increasingly regulated world where public opinion and the political process are critical.
Dan spent many years in senior positions within the Government of Canada, where he led policy development in several departments, including Environment, Transport, Infrastructure, and the Treasury Board. He later served as Chief of Staff to the Minister Responsible for Defence Procurement.
Dan has been active in Conservative Party of Canada campaigns since his university days. His activism includes service as Deputy Campaign Manager (Policy) on a winning Conservative Party of Canada leadership campaign and leading the development of the Party’s campaign platform for the 2021 general election.
During his twenty years of political activism for the Ontario PC Party, Dan served as Deputy Director of Communications for the 2014 general election campaign and as a member of the scripting team for the 2018 campaign.
Dan began his career designing and developing enterprise software, then worked as a management consultant and as an executive at a technology company. Before joining NATIONAL, Dan was a Senior Consultant at a Toronto-based public affairs strategy consultancy.
He is a member of the Advisory Board of CJPAC, an active volunteer with the Writers’ Trust of Canada and the Jewish National Fund of Canada, and a past board member of the Government Relations Institute of Canada (GRIC).
Dan has an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
