Founder
Dan Cordon
Founder, National Ventures LLC.
Bio
Dan has spent twenty years inside founder-led businesses — leading them, scaling them, buying them, selling them, and building the operating architecture that lets them run without him in the middle.
National Ventures is the delivery arm of Damaria Advisory Group, the parent company that owns the underlying methodology — DRIVEN, Partner Pipeline, the Canon Collection of books, and the DRIVEN Lecture Series. The work installed in your business draws from a written backbone of two decades of operating evidence.
Operating record
- 01Led a $7M organization to #3 in the company out of 11 locations.
- 02Built and scaled a $16M operation in a tightly regulated market.
- 03Helped launch 30+ high-performance retail and hospitality locations.
- 04Owned and operated 7 businesses and hospitality venues.
Civic record
- 01Founded the Transitional Employment Program and helped build one of the country's first sustainable workforce-development models.
- 02Featured on PBS NewsHour (2013), presenting the Transitional Employment Program framework on national television.
- 03Served on Massachusetts Governor's Task Force.
- 04Panelist, the Trotter Review (2012), alongside the Suffolk County Sheriff.
- 05Presented transitional-employment models to federal lawmakers and advocacy coalitions on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.