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 variety of new, quickly growing companies.

Through DEW Ventures, Danny has co-founded:

• RoundOne (www.roundone.com), an online content development, social networking, and collaboration platform.
• Culinova (www.culinova.com), which develops foods with health and functional benefits and licenses them typically to large food companies looking for innovation.
• LoyalTec (www.loyaltec.net), which helps its retail clients use their own transactional data to transform anonymous customers into loyal ones. The Allied Group (www.thealliedgrp.com) acquired LoyalTec in 2007.

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 has served on the boards of several startups, and was a founding board member of the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program where he is now a Trustee Emeritus. He currently serves on the board of Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education (RISE) — a non-profit that 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 also the recipient of the Merrill L. Hassenfeld Leadership in Community Service Award.

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 & Entrepreneurship program, and the entrepreneurial finance modules of the Masters Program in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (PRIME). He is the recipient of the Brown Israel Faculty Exchange Fellowship through which he has taught his Entrepreneurship and New Ventures course in the Executive MBA Program of the Recanati School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University. And most recently, in January and June 2008, he taught intensive versions of his Entrepreneurship and New Ventures course for Egyptian executives, heads of NGOs and entrepreneurs at the TMA Executive Training Institute of Cairo. He is also Brown faculty liaison to the Ivy League champion Brown men’s soccer team.

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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