
Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder NorthPoint Financial; Co-Founder & Board Observer SmartZip, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area

Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder NorthPoint Financial; Co-Founder & Board Observer SmartZip, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
As Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of NorthPoint, Dan is responsible for overseeing all of the company’s business operations.
In addition, Dan is a co-founder and board observer of SmartZip, Inc., a venture-backed real estate analytics company.
His previous experience has spanned the venture capital, investment banking, technology and mortgage industries. Prior to 2001, he served as Managing Director of Berkeley Incubator, LLC, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on commercializing technologies that originated from the University of California at Berkeley. He was also a founding partner of Venture Advisors, LLC, a boutique investment banking firm that provided strategic advisory, growth capital, and M&A services to emerging technology companies. Prior to this he provided private equity and asset management services.
Dan is an active real estate investor, owning more than 20 properties as well as general partner of Double Eagle, LP, and Sandy Par, LLC real estate investment funds.
Venture investing, enterprise due diligence, business strategy, transaction negotiations and business operations.
(Privately Held; Real Estate industry)
2001 — Present (8 years )
Northpoint is a leading full-service real estate investment firm, which makes the complicated process of investing in real estate quick and effortless. Northpoint provides an effortless service to help individuals to easily invest in residential real estate and add residential real estate to their investment portfolios by offering a broad range of services such as extensive market research, optimal real estate property recommendations, strategic investment planning, financing, and effective property management through a team of dedicated investment advisors and strong relationships with brokers, builders, lenders and property managers around the country. thousands of clients increase their wealth, plan for their retirement, and achieve their financial goals.
SmartZip is the leading provider of independent, analytics-based research for real estate investment. SmartZip is used by investors and homebuyers to easily search, find, compare and confirm the best homes to buy in the best places at the best price. SmartZip’s investor-tailored tools empower consumers to buy homes with confidence and peace of mind. SmartZip is a privately held, venture backed corporation headquartered in Pleasanton, CA
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
1998 — 2001 (3 years )
Providing seed stage capital and business formation services for business concepts and technologies originating at UC Berkeley.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Accounting industry)
1998 — 2001 (3 years )
New venture consultants/boutique m&a
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
1991 — 1998 (7 years )
Private Equity and Asset Management for private investment group.
1990