Dan Woolley has nearly 40 years of IT industry leadership developing and delivering software and hardware products and building global security consulting organizations. As a General Partner with MACH37 he oversees the 14-week curriculum and daily operations of the nation’s leading cyber security accelerator. Dan is responsible for identifying emerging security entrepreneurs and structuring programs that prepare them to find early stage and venture funding. Prior to joining MACH37 Dan was responsible for managing five of Dell’s seven Strategic Global Alliances as well as Dell’s security domain partners and while at CA Technologies developed and implemented the long range strategic partnership programs for Microsoft and Intel. A large part of Dan’s career has been centered in the evolving international cyber security world. He has been personally involved in defining cyber security standards for corporate America, established the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis (FS ISAC) and IT ISAC, as well as shaping the development of cyber protection and cyber response organizations at Raytheon, SAIC ‘s Global Integrity and at Ernst & Young. While managing Ernst and Young’s Information Security Services Mid Atlantic Practice he served as the lead negotiator for a consortium of leading software security companies on the Digital Millennium Copyright Treaty and as the President and CEO of Global Integrity, an SAIC subsidiary, testified before the US Congress on Information Security Threats to the US Corporate Infrastructure. Dan is retired US Air Force officer and has held multiple assignments at the Pentagon on the staff to the Secretary of the Air Force. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Northern Colorado and a Master of Advanced Communications Management from the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California. He is also a graduate of the USAF Air Command Staff College, Squadron Officers School and the Defense Information College.
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