Daniel L Skaff

Bio

Dan Skaff is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sienna Ventures, a private investment firm where he focuses on growth businesses in consumer, retail, mobile communications and financial services. Dan currently serves as a director of Glu Mobile, Inc. (Nasdaq GLUU), a provider of digital entertainment for mobile devices and social networks; EBT Mobile China PLC, a Shanghai-based retailer of mobile devices and services; Vivaro, Inc. a national Hispanic communications and financial services company; and OneCalifornia Bank FSB. Dan’s previous investments at Sienna include Openwave Systems (Nasdaq: OPWV), TradePoint Solutions (sold to DemandTec: DMAN); Widcomm (sold to Broadcom: BRCM); @Motion (sold to Openwave); Protocol Communications (sold to Willis Stein Partners); Bojangles’ Restaurants (sold to an affiliate of Wendy’s International); and Heidi’s Fine Desserts (sold to an affiliate of Edwards Baking Company). Dan also serves on the Investment Committee of the Marin Community Foundation (Chairman-elect) and the Harvard College Fund Council. Prior to Sienna Ventures, he served as Chairman & CEO of Sienna Holdings and Founder & Executive Chairman of Pon North America, the U.S. investment and operating affiliates respectively of Pon Holdings B.V. of the Netherlands. Earlier in his career he served in the Corporate Finance Departments of Bankers Trust Company and Bank of America. Dan received a bachelor’s degree with honors from Harvard University, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Wharton Fellow.