Managing
Director
Danny Warshay
Danny Warshay has devoted his
career to building, managing and harvesting high-growth
entrepreneurial ventures. He is the founder and managing
director of DEW Ventures, a platform he has used to launch and
develop a portfolio of new, quickly growing companies and to
advise a variety of others.
Danny began his entrepreneurial
pursuits while an undergraduate at Brown as co-founder of Clearview
Software, the developer of the SmartForms suite of Macintosh
applications software. Apple Computer acquired Clearview in 1989. He
then co-developed Specialized Systems and Software, a custom
software development firm sold to Medline Industries.
Danny led the growth of Anchor
Communications, a startup magazine and Internet publishing company
sold in two parts to A.H. Belo Corporation and Miller Publishing
Group. While at Anchor, Danny served as publisher of the company's
regional titles including Rhode Island Monthly and spearheaded the
launch of its first Internet products including RhodeIsland.com. He
also served as Chief Operating Officer of Anchor’s first national
products, Getaways magazine and GetawaysOnline.com Internet travel
service.
As co-founder and managing director
of Health Business Partners — the nutrition industry’s premier
venture capital and financial advisory firm — Danny built and led
the firm's venture capital practice.
Danny’s corporate experience came
at Procter & Gamble as a member of the Duncan Hines Brand Management
team where he managed the development and marketing of new products.
One of Danny’s business passions is
Open-Book Management – an approach to empowering, motivating and
rewarding employees through exposure to all relevant measures,
financial literacy, and providing a meaningful stake in the outcome
through employee ownership. He has spoken in national forums and has
been interviewed in Inc. Magazine on the topic, and coaches
companies interested in embracing this approach.
Danny is an adjunct professor at
Brown University where he teaches Entrepreneurship and New Ventures:
A Socratic Approach to Innovation Analysis and Application - an
advanced course that he developed in the interdisciplinary Commerce,
Organizations and Entrepreneurship program (COE). In the 2008
Critical Review, this course received the highest rating of any
course taught at Brown. He also teaches entrepreneurial finance and
Creating Business Opportunities from Emerging Technology in the
Brown Masters Program in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
(PRIME) and serves on the PRIME faculty leadership team.
In 2006, he was the recipient of
the Brown Israel Faculty Exchange Fellowship through which he taught
his Entrepreneurship and New Ventures course in the Executive MBA
Program of the Recanati School of Business at Tel Aviv University.
In January and June 2008, he taught intensive versions of his
Entrepreneurship and New Ventures course for Egyptian executives,
heads of Egyptian NGOs and entrepreneurs at the TMA Executive
Training Institute of Cairo, and in July 2009 through Brown’s Office
of International Programs, he taught a similar course at Instituto
Universitário de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal. In June 2009, he co-led
the week-long Workshop on Technology Entrepreneurship Teaching in
the Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI). He is
also Brown faculty liaison to the Ivy League champion Brown men’s
soccer team.
Danny has been appointed to the
faculty of the Sofaer International MBA program at Tel Aviv
University's Recanati School of Business. Beginning in the summer of
2010, he will be teaching his Entrepreneurship and New Ventures
course in this newly formed global experience rooted in Israel's
innovative, entrepreneurial and high-tech business culture.
Brown’s Dean of the Graduate
School, Sheila Bonde, and Vice President of Research, Clyde Briant,
have asked Danny to collaborate with them on an ethics teaching
project for which they have received a grant from the National
Science Foundation. Danny will be teaching case studies focused on
business ethics.
In recognition of his active
support for Brown students in and out of the classroom, Danny has
been nominated for the Karen T. Romer Award for excellence in
advising and as a finalist for the Barrett Hazeltine Award for
Excellence in Teaching.
Danny has served on the boards of
numerous startups, and was a founding board member of the Brown
University Entrepreneurship Program where he is now a Trustee
Emeritus. He has served on a variety of other non-profit boards
focused on health and education. Those include Rhode Islanders
Sponsoring Education (RISE) which provides mentoring, social service
support and educational opportunity for the children of incarcerated
parents; the Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island; the Miriam
Hospital Board of Governors; and as an Honorary Life President of
the Brown University Hillel Foundation where for four years he
served as President during the foundation’s $12 million capital
campaign and construction of its 28,000 square foot new facility. He
is the recipient of the Merrill L. Hassenfeld Leadership in
Community Service Award.
Danny received a B.A. in History,
magna cum laude, from Brown University (Junior Year at Hebrew
University in Jerusalem), and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business
School.
In addition to spending time with
his wonderful wife and three terrific children, Danny loves the
mental and physical challenges and rewards of vinyasa yoga. He is
also an avid (and tortured) Cleveland sports fan.
Affiliates
Dr. Kevin Vigilante
Currently
Clinical Associate Professor at Brown University. He has published
widely, from academic literature to the NY Times, on topics ranging
from nutrition, to HIV, to health policy and has recently published a
book on diet and nutrition called Low Fat Lies, High Fat Frauds. He
appears frequently on radio and TV, including recent appearances on
Good Morning America and 20/20.
Vigilante was selected by the
Kellogg Foundation as a national leadership fellow, and in 1995 was
selected by Time Magazine as one of 50 outstanding leaders under the
age of 40. Dr. Vigilante has run for congress and remains active in
the health care policy debate as member of the Consensus Group, a
Washington based health policy group composed of prominent think-tanks
across the ideological spectrum.
An entrepreneur, he has
provided consulting services for a number of e-health start-up
ventures. Dr. Vigilante also opened a highly successful restaurant in
New Haven, CT.
A social activist, Vigilante
ran an inner city free clinic for HIV+ women, organized relief efforts
in Romania after the revolution, performed a dangerous human rights
investigation in the Sudan and subsequently reported his findings on
child slavery to the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva and to
the US Congress. He also founded an organization called RISE, which
has raised over a million dollars to provide mentoring, social service
support and educational opportunity for the children of incarcerated
parents. It is the only program of its kind in the country.
Dr. Kevin Vigilante graduated
from Johns Hopkins with a BA in philosophy, received his MD from
Cornell, did his residency in internal medicine at Yale and received
his Masters in Public Health from Harvard.
Dave Goldstein
Dave Goldstein is President of
TMD Group, a full service business assistance company offering
computer, marketing and professional development and training services
for businesses, nonprofits and political campaigns. For 18 years, Dave
has been actively involved in providing consulting and other services
to businesses, nonprofits, and political campaigns. TMD Group
services include: computer networking and systems development,
programming, database development, list management and acquisition,
web design and marketing, advertising, public relations, graphic
design, multimedia and commercial production, polling, market
research, telemarketing, management training, nonprofit staff
services, and strategic planning. Dave has conducted many training and
other workshops during the past several years aimed at the business,
nonprofit and political communities.
David L Potter
David
L. Potter is President of Momentum
Venture Associates, LLC of Providence, RI, a firm that provides
"virtual management teams" of experienced senior executives
from varied disciplines and industries to early stage companies. Prior
to starting MVA, Dave served in marketing and senior general
management positions in consumer product companies (General Mills and
Textron) and healthcare/financial services (the Unum Corporation). He
has been the start-up COO of two healthcare technology companies,
Chief Marketing Officer of a successful consumer products turnaround
venture, and is a sponsor the Technology Capital Network at MIT. Dave
graduated from Bowdoin College and received his MBA from the Amos Tuck
School of Business at Dartmouth College.
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