Dossier SUP/GF — Startups & Greenfielding
Dan has founded, co-founded, and been brought in to build startups across three continents. Salud Health USA, Compass Living, and CasAway are ventures he owned or co-owned and founded or co-founded outright. Kayastha Global Associates and AloeVR are startups that contracted him directly for his commercial and market-entry expertise.
That work has meant greenfielding new markets from scratch — Salud Health USA into Latin America, Compass Living into Southeast Asia, and contracted greenfield work for Kayastha Global Associates into Ukraine and Bulgaria.
Dossier Summary
Skill Set
The skills that come up most in startup and greenfield work — each one earned on a specific venture, not a course.
Founded and co-founded Salud Health USA, Compass Living, and CasAway from inception — building the commercial function before there was a company around it.
Opened markets with no existing playbook: Salud Health USA into Latin America, Compass Living into Southeast Asia, and Kayastha Global Associates into Ukraine and Bulgaria.
Brought in as a contracted executive by Kayastha Global Associates and AloeVR to build commercial functions with founder-level ownership, without founder equity.
Built compliance frameworks for cross-border ventures in emerging markets — tourism registration, liability insurance, and licensing, as demonstrated in Latin American hospitality work.
Builds trust with local partners, regulators, and institutions in markets where there's no existing relationship or reputation to lean on.
Builds full financial models and compliance frameworks for new ventures from scratch, as with the Villavicencio, Colombia hospitality business case.
Brought new technology categories to market for the first time in a given geography — telemedicine through Salud Health USA, VR-based education through AloeVR.
Runs early-stage ventures without established infrastructure, covering sales, partnerships, compliance, and operations at once until the org chart catches up.
Track Record
Founded and led the venture that greenfielded into Latin America, growing the CareClix telemedicine platform into a 28-country footprint and placing Secured Communications software into Hospital Santa Fe de Bogotá.
Co-founded a hospitality and living-space venture that greenfielded into Southeast Asia, with operations centered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Founded a residential hospitality concept now in early development, applying lessons from prior greenfield ventures in Latin America.
Brought in as a contracted executive to lead greenfield expansion into Ukraine and Bulgaria, building cross-border business development from the ground up.
Brought in to commercialize an immersive VR learning technology within the charter-school vertical, a new category for the market it entered.
