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Dan Simpkins is an experienced entrepreneur who has spent his career buildingfounded and led two
successful technology companies. He is currently CEO of Hillcrest Labs,
a company startup companies: SALIX Technologies, a telecommunications
 pioneer; and Hillcrest Labs, a consumer electronics innovator. As CEO of
Hillcrest Labs, which he founded in 2001 to create , Dan has guided the company to
introduce groundbreaking user experiences for television, and to develop
in consumer electronics and which is now exceptional expertise in sensors processing. Hillcrest is currently the leading
global
supplier of software, hardware, and intellectual property for motionenabledmotion-enabled
products. Before founding Hillcrest, Simpkins founded Dan led SALIX Technologies ,
and over the course of a decade led for over a
decade, managing the company from inception to its becoming a leader in VoIP, and
then to its acquisition by Tellabs, Inc. for $300 million. Simpkins operates as
both Dan is both a business and
technical leader: he has been issued 13 he teaches, writes about, and speaks on a variety of business
subjects, and he holds 19 U.S. patents
in the fields of interactive television and telecommunications; and
teaches, writes, and speaks on a variety of business subjects. He has

telecommunications. Dan has been recognized as one of the top 25 CEOs in the
Washington, D.C. area;
region, is an active adviser advisor to and investor in several early-stage
companies;
, and sits on the board of the private company PublicRelay.

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