Dan’s Profile

Dan began his career at age 14 when he took a job as a parking attendant at an antique center/auction house in his home town of Essex Junction, Vermont. He moved on to a position as a pot washer and dish room worker in the kitchens of Trinity College, a catholic women’s college in Burlington, Vermont – a cool place for an adolescent male to work. Dan was promoted from the dish room to part-time prep cook and eventually became a student manager. It was those early mornings at Trinity College, prepping breakfast for several hundred young women (and nuns), that Dan developed his culinary skills and his appreciation for strong coffee. He would go on to pick up odd jobs as a pizza chef, selling Levi’s in a local teen shop, painting dormitories, shucking Belon Oysters, and prepping gourmet salads.

As a struggling college student, Dan worked a number of odd jobs: He bartended in the Virgin Islands; sheared live Christmas trees (frazier furs) in the mountains of North Carolina; worked as an orderly with cardiac surgery patients at UNC Hospitals; as a paralegal for a law firm involved in tobacco litigation; as an HVAC maintenance technician; and as a short order cook for Ann Fields Country Pie Restaurant in Amherst, Massachusetts. What better background could there be for a future marketer and brand consultant?

Today, Dan is the president of Jennings, a remarkable advertising agency based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is a marketer, blogger, author and pubic speaker.

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