Mr. Danner is an experienced management consultant and entrepreneur across a number of industries and organizational settings. He has advised senior executives of multi-billion-dollar international enterprises on issues of strategy, value management and business growth; as well as management teams of emerging ventures on matters of competitive positioning, marketing and product strategy. His clients over the years have ranged from leading companies in the healthcare, energy, entertainment, food products, telecommunications and information sectors to startups in newer markets like energy management, e-commerce and supply chain integration; as well as private foundations, universities, government agencies and healthcare nonprofits.

He has firsthand experience developing ventures, having co-founded a national business newspaper and managed care publication in the healthcare industry as well as having designed and successfully launched several new business initiatives for client organizations over the past thirty years. He also serves as ongoing advisor to several new companies in various industries. He began his entrepreneurial career while an undergraduate at Harvard, where he co-founded a market research and foreign language translation business that provided part-time employment to many Boston-area students.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Danner practiced corporate and regulatory law for Morrison & Foerster, a multinational law firm based in San Francisco. While there, he successfully represented clients in a number of unusual settings, including coordinating MCI’s state-by-state regulatory agenda following the divestiture of AT&T, troubleshooting several major downtown development projects in the Bay Area, negotiating a multi-billion-dollar energy purchase agreement and drafting enacted legislative reforms in the pension investment arena. He was Executive Assistant to then-Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas; and was the first Executive Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.

Mr. Danner earned his J.D. degree from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley,
where he also served as Associate Editor of the California Law Review. In addition, he holds the M.A.Ed. and M.P.H. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College.

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