Executive DirectorTrico Charitable Foundation
Dan is Executive Director of the Trico Charitable Foundation, which seeks to leverage social entrepreneurship to reimagine how we can use the power of business models to close gaps in society. His highlights as E.D. include overseeing Canada’s hosting of the Social Enterprise World Forum in 2013 (over 1,000 attendees from over 30 countries and over 100 speakers); organizing the first official “social entrepreneurship day” in Calgary in 2016; overseeing the funding of key social enterprise infrastructure projects like the Changemakers Studio at Mount Royal University and the Social Entrepreneurship Centre at Haskayne; and publishing numerous case studies and blogs on social entrepreneurship.
Prior to Trico, Dan served as Director of Policy and Communications for the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce (MCC). In that capacity he was an early adopter of CSR, shared value, and cluster theory; redesigned the MCC to focus on community values as well as entrepreneurial spirit; and oversaw the MCC’s participation in the anti-poverty campaigns ‘Raise the Rates’ and ‘Make Poverty History.’