Dan is a Partner and Senior Government Relations Consultant with NC Capitol Strategies, focusing on government relations, consulting, and public affairs in North Carolina and Washington DC.

 

A former two-term Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, he also provides clients with strategic advice and counsel, tapping into his extensive experience and knowledge of state and federal public policy and politics.  During Dan’s eight-year tenure as Lieutenant Governor, he served as President of the North Carolina Senate, Chairman of the Energy Policy Council, and member of the state Economic Development Board. Dan also served as Chairman of the Digital Technology Committee of the State Board of Education, Chairman of the Postsecondary Educational Credentials Board, and a voting member of the North Carolina Board of Community Colleges. Dan is a long-time champion of charter schools and school choice for students and families. Dan has spearheaded several key legislative achievements, including the first-of-its-kind (in America) University Campus Free Speech bill, mandatory financial literacy and economics requirements for all high school graduates, and a digital learning plan that made North Carolina the first state in the nation to connect every single classroom to high-speed internet.

 

He also successfully advocated for opportunity scholarships for disadvantaged students, and numerous school choice bills. Additionally, Dan championed several anti-human trafficking bills, and innovative legislation supporting eVtol technology, and crypto-currency among others.

 

Dan spent his early career as an architect and ultimately as a senior partner with one of the nation’s largest architecture firms. There he led design teams in corporate, primary and higher education, and civic projects for numerous organizations across the nation.

 

He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.