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Business Advisory Network
About Business Advisory Network
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BAN was founded in 2006 by Dan Caligor to provide advisory services and interim CXO staffing to early stage ventures, privately held companies and social impact organizations.
Our work approach is highly tailored to each client's needs and circumstances, and the value we provide ranges from producing specific deliverables to ongoing participation in day-to-day operations.
Each BAN project team is assembled from our network of specialized professionals, and is tailored to fit the specific needs of the moment.
About Dan Caligor
Dan’s approach to fostering success is informed by 20+ years of alternating between management consulting and direct participation in start-ups. His consulting experience includes six years in the strategy practice of Booz-Allen & Hamilton (now Strategy&,the global strategy consulting team at PWC) serving telecom, media and high tech clients, as well as stints at BearingPoint doing operational strategy and at Alexander & Associates doing market research and analysis for media clients.
His venture roles have included: employee # 1 at Viatel, a pioneering international call-back service provider; SVP Product and Strategy at Global Wireless Holdings, which built wireless networks in emerging markets; founding COO and later CEO of SoundStreak, “the internet recording studio,” founding COO of EyeIC, which provided image analysis software to ophthalmologists and optometrists, and Strategy & Special projects at MobileODT, which creates hardware, software and AI diagnostics for women's health practitioners.
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His functional experience includes: business and product strategy, product management, IP strategy & management, funding planning, FDA pathways, operational issues from financial planning to org and process, and project management from concept to implementation. Dan has authored a number of issued patents and has experience with licensing IP and infringement litigation.
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Dan is a passionate photographer (he took all the images used on this site) and is keenly interested in commercial, consumer and medical imaging technologies and businesses. See caligor.net for more of Dan's photography.
Dan holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.