Dan Hanlon

Current

• CEO/CFO/Founder/Chairman at Excelsior-Henderson
• GM at Union Hill Ventures

Past

• Adj. Professor at Bethel University
• Author at Riding The American Dream
• Founder/CEO/Chairman at EverGreen Solutions

• New Business Development & Finance at Honeywell
• New Business Development & Finance at Ecolab
• Lead Technician Green Giant at The Pillsbury Company

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Education

• University of Saint Thomas
• University of Saint Thomas - School of Business

Recommendations

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Connections

127 connections

Industry

Renewables & Environment

Websites

• My Website

Dan Hanlon’s Experience

• CEO/CFO/Founder/Chairman

  Excelsior-Henderson

  (Privately Held; Automotive industry)

  1993 — Present (17 years )

  Led executive management team developing key functional leadership areas; including legal, finance, investments, operations, product development, contract negotiations, and community and public relations.
  
  Drafted and led Implementation of strategic business plan for patented branded consumer goods product launch of OEM motor vehicles. Compliant with EPA and DOT regulations.
  
  Grew revenue from zero and to market capitalization of $250 million. Investments included private and public placements of equity and debt, IPO, government programs, bond offerings, NASDAQ compliance, secured and unsecured debt.
  
  Conducted presentations, national IPO road show (15:1 return for early shareholders), 5,000 attendees at shareholder meeting. 20,000 shareholders worldwide.
  
  Built national distribution from zero to 150 OEM franchised dealers. Staff of 250 Road Crew Members (employees), plus a volunteer force.
  
  Launched international public relations campaign including radio talk shows, television news, and print media, fostering 100% brand name recognition.

• GM

  Union Hill Ventures

  (Environmental Services industry)

  1974 — Present (36 years )

  General Manager of Union Hill Ventures providing executive leadership in emerging industries, including the field of transportation and energy—frequently executing a paradigm shift—including projects pursuing alternative or sustainable energy systems in the solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, and biofuels areas.
  
  Former CEO of a publicly held company, Fortune 500 experience with Honeywell and EcoLabs, an automotive technician, farmer, inventor of patented biodegradable packaging, patents and trademarks in the transportation industry; launched several companies, raised several hundred million dollars including leading a NASDAQ listed IPO, featured in local, national and international news media; a keynote speaker, an author, and an instructor of environmental studies at the grad level.

• Adj. Professor

  Bethel University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2007 — 2008 (1 year )

  Instruct environmental studies, operations management, and entrepreneurship.

• Author

  Riding The American Dream

  (Oil & Energy industry)

  2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

  Author of book, Riding The American Dream. Business entrepreneurial story of launching and building the Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle company and competing against industry stalwarts like Harley-Davidson, Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Ducati, etc...
  
  Book included in course curriculum at Universities.

• Founder/CEO/Chairman

  EverGreen Solutions

  (Environmental Services industry)

  1990 — 1993 (3 years )

  Invented patented product for biodegradable packaging to replace polystyrene packing peanuts. Designed and built manufacturing process. Bypassed traditional distribution and sold direct to business consumer. 99% reorder rate. Company was sold and successor company still producing product and has dominant market share.

• New Business Development & Finance

  Honeywell

  (Public Company; HON; Defense & Space industry)

  1979 — 1985 (6 years )

  Multi-Billion Fortune 500 Public Company: Military and Commercial Aviation, Government Contracts, Building Controls. Strategic planning, audit, legal, and finance. Financial oversight on Government and Military contracts for Navy, Army, and Air Force. Lead corporate strategic planner for $400 million Building Controls Group. On team that launched the Commercial Aviation Group growing revenue from zero to over $100 million.

• New Business Development & Finance

  Ecolab

  (Public Company; ECL; Chemicals industry)

  January 1979 — December 1979 (1 year )

  Multi-Billion Fortune 500 Public Company: Lead corporate finance at the world headquarters in St. Paul, MN for chemical cleaning manufacturing operations in South Plainfield, NJ and corporate R & D center.

• Lead Technician Green Giant

  The Pillsbury Company

  (Public Company; Consumer Goods industry)

  June 1973 — August 1979 (6 years 3 months)

  Green Giant Field Supervisor
  Green Giant Lead Mechanic & Technician
  Supervisor and Lead Mechanic/Technician for 20 person field crew harvesting 1000s of acres of crops with industrial farming equipment for delivery to the factory for processing.

Dan Hanlon’s Education

• University of Saint Thomas

  MBA , International, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

• University of Saint Thomas - School of Business

  BA , Finance

Additional Information

Dan Hanlon’s Websites:

• My Website

Dan Hanlon’s Interests:

motorcycles, automotive, energy, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, electric cars, entrepreneurship, hard work and play

Dan Hanlon’s Groups:

•    Powersports Business

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