Dan O’Neill is Entrepreneurial Coach for Entrepreneurial Services of the Arizona State University (ASU) Office of Research and Economic Affairs and CEO of DJT Enterprises. In these roles, Mr. O’Neill has taught, coached, mentored or advised several hundred early-stage innovators and entrepreneurs. He has coached 40 ventures from the U.S., Europe and Australia through ASU Technopolis’ intensive one-on-one Global Launch Pad program.

With a degree in Math and Computer Science from Arizona State University, Mr. O’Neill began his career as a Marketing Representative for IBM in 1980. After leaving IBM, Mr. O’Neill worked for Transform Logic, a Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) company as an educator and consultant. At Transform Mr. O’Neill innovated one of the world’s first functional software factories, which was used to deliver multi-million dollar application projects.

In 1988, Mr. O’Neill joined two other founders to create Miles Burke Associates, a custom software development company. In 1998 the partners transitioned the company into Hologix, an order management and supply chain solutions software product company backed by $25 million from first-tier venture capital firms from California, New York and Austin. After growing Hologix to $10 million in software revenues and 120 employees, Mr. O’Neill left in 2000 to begin his entrepreneurial consulting practice.

Mr. O’Neill’s current areas of work include Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Community Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Technologies, Social Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship as Storytelling. Mr. O'Neill is President of the Board of Trustees of Childsplay, Arizona's professional theatre for young audiences, which recently completed an $8 million capital campaign.