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Dan Solomon

Chief Executive Officer

Virilion

Dan Solomon leads Virilion in all of the company's client servicing, marketing and business development activities and sets the firm’s general strategic direction.

Dan frequently speaks to industry groups and non-technical professionals nationwide about integrating Internet techniques into communication strategies. He is currently writing a book The Media Rules! to be published by Wiley in 2007.

Dan serves on the Board of Directors of the Public Affairs Council, the Mid-Atlantic Council of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, and the Advisory Council to the College of Charleston’s Department of Communication. Dan is also on the board of Four Walls Media, Inc.

Dan is also founder of the Politics Online Conference now hosted by George Washington University. Dan was selected to the 2003 “MindShare” Class, an exclusive, by invitation only program for CEOs of the most promising, high tech, start-up companies in the Greater Washington Metropolitan region.

Prior to joining Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, Dan was publisher of nationaljournal.com, National Journal Group’s “members only” Web site and general manager of National Journal’s Daily Briefings Group, which includes The Hotline, CongressDaily and National Journal’s Technology Daily.

In 1999, Dan held a political appointment with the U.S. Department of Commerce and for five years worked in senior legislative positions in the United States Senate for Senator Harris Wofford (D-PA) and Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI). Dan has also worked in a variety of capacities on state-wide political campaigns across the country. He also practiced commercial law with the firm of Hale and Dorr and clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Missouri. Dan is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota Law School. Dan and his wife, Laura Dove, daughter Abigail and son Jacob live in Alexandria, Virginia.