Dan leverages nearly 20 years of experience in building and guiding teams responsible for governance and compliance within complex regulatory and legal landscapes, with a more recent focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning and emerging technology due to the increasing requirements for trusted and transparent systems and processes.
Prior to joining Kroll, Dan served as the Vice President for Digital Governance at Walmart, where he designed and built the AI and emerging tech governance program. In this role, he developed the risk and governance strategies for deploying AI systems and tools, including the measurement and monitoring of risk in AI-focused data and models. Dan was responsible for the legal and regulatory compliance of Walmart’s products and internal processes that leveraged AI. Dan was also responsible for U.S. privacy governance and global records and information management, particularly electronic data and governance used to build AI models.
With experience as an attorney in both private practice and in-house, Dan brings deep legal and compliance expertise to Kroll and excels at simplifying and operationalizing technology governance programs and solutions, driving efficiency and trust.
Dan’s expertise has contributed to several industry papers, including Earning Digital Trust: Decision-Making for Trustworthy Technologies and Digital Trust: Supporting Individual Agency both from the World Economic Forum. Dan is a frequent speaker on the topic of AI Governance and Risk Mitigation, including at the Northwest Arkansas Tech Summit, and with the IAPP.
Dan was a principal drafter of Walmart’s AI Pledge. He also contributed to policy papers through his work with the Data & Trust Alliance and with the Business Round Table. Dan serves on the advisory council for the University of Arkansas Data Science Program.
Dan received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Missouri State University and attended the University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Law.
