Dan has had 20 years experience in communications counseling in Japan. A graduate from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Far East Asian Studies, Dan has bilingual fluency in spoken and written Japanese.
Formerly with an IR consultancy, in 1995 Dan established Gravitas, a marketing communications firm, which was later acquired by Publicis Groupe. He later founded a new independent consultancy, which in 2004 became Upstream Japan.

