ACG Cleveland Virtual Conversation with Dan Moore

After building his first motorcycle at age 14, Dan Moore started his first business, a tree service, before he’d even graduated from high school.  With one truck and a couple of employees, he put himself through college and lit the spark that began his career as a successful entrepreneur and businessman. Since then, he has taken his innovative mind across the industrial spectrum: from the semi-conductor industry to basic materials science to the big five automotive companies.

Dan’s earliest ventures were in the automobile industry where he developed a rust-proofing material for Ford and GM chassis.  After finding early success in this industry, he branched out into polymers and plastics where he started and sold multiple businesses.

In addition to continually starting and growing new businesses, Dan has found his way into managing multiple companies in turnaround and distressed situations.  His style has always been hands-on and working directly with management and engineering to build a solution that can bring a company back to life.

Source: The Dan T. Moore Company

For the past twenty years, Adam Kaufman has been serving, calling on, and marketing to many of the most successful and influential leaders in the U.S. and abroad. He has earned the trust of CEOs, investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and nonprofit leaders. This professional life has created a platform from which he has been able to observe the most effective leaders and what motivates these accomplished people of influence: their leadership styles, their challenges, their worries, and their motivations.

Adam has been an advisor to JumpStart’s CEO and President for five years and is a partner in Palo Alto-based Ovo Fund, a seed-stage venture fund. Adam also serves as the Carol A. Melton Executive-in-Residence at Washington, D.C.-based PathNorth. He loves helping leaders grow their companies and is a board member of South Dakota-based Biltmore Trust Company and an advisor and board member to several entrepreneurs.

Previously, Adam served as president of Healthnetwork Foundation for a decade, providing facilitated access into top hospitals for high net-worth families worldwide. Additionally, he led a fast-growth business which reached #10 on Cleveland’s Weatherhead 100 list.