30-year streaming media veteran considered one of the foremost authorities, speakers, and writers on streaming media technology and OTT business models. An avid blogger, author, consultant and principal analyst, Dan is referred to by many as the voice of the industry, having been quoted more than 2,000 times by the media, with regular TV appearances on CNBC, TD Ameritrade Network, Bloomberg TV and NPR amongst others. Due to his expertise, Dan has also received invitations to speak as a witness at hearings by both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives on topics about net neutrality, telecom mergers and content delivery architectures. 

Dan is conference Chairman for the NAB Show Streaming Summit, and his streamingmediablog.com is one of the most widely read sites for broadcasters, content owners, OTT providers, Wall Street money managers and industry executives. Has presented at more than two hundred conferences, authored/co-authored eight books and lectured at NYU. Dan founded one of the industry's first live webacasting production companies in the mid-nineties, which was sold to a telecom provider in the dot com era.