Dan Seals

Dan Seals is the Chief Executive Officer of Intersect Illinois, a public private partnership focused on global business development for the State of Illinois.  He oversees all aspects of the organization, including marketing, sales, financing, and personnel.

Dan has spent his career in both the public and private sector.  He previously served as a Director at the American Medical Association, where he led both domestic and international marketing for a large portfolio of business services.  He has also led business marketing for a division of GE Capital, where he helped achieve double digit growth in the specialized real estate sector.  Prior to that Dan led a marketing team at T-Mobile, where he marketed telecommunications products nationwide.

Dan also served as the Assistant Director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, where he oversaw programs for business attraction, small business support, workforce development, tourism, and international trade.  During that time he led the development of the first Illinois Economic Development Plan in years.  Dan has previously served as an adjunct professor of public policy at Northwestern University.  He also won the Presidential Management Fellowship—serving as an aide to the Assistant Secretary of U.S. Department of Commerce and as an economic aide in the U.S. Senate.

Dan holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and a MIPP in International Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.  He was born and raised in Illinois where he resides with his wife and three daughters.