Dan headed to New York from Calgary to study advertising at the School of Visual Arts. Since then he’s worked at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Droga5, and Barton F. Graf. He then went abroad to Amsterdam where he was the co-ECD of 180 Amsterdam until finally going abroad again to join Saatchi & Saatchi, London. He was named one of the top ten most awarded creatives in the world twice and in 2014 he was named the most awarded art director in the United States despite being from humble Canada and failing to hide his accent.