MEET THE FOUNDER & MANAGING PRINCIPAL

I'm Dan Cordón.

I spent more than twenty years operating businesses — carrying full P&L, scaling multi-unit operations, and learning that what breaks a growing company is rarely strategy. It's structure. Somewhere between intention and execution, priorities start to compete, systems get improvised, and the whole operation ends up routing through the founder.

I built National Ventures to fix that from the inside — to find the structural gaps that keep a business dependent on its owner and install the systems that close them. What I bring to the work:

Two decades as a hands-on operator, not an observer — I built and ran the businesses, not just advised them.

A multi-unit operation scaled past $16M with full P&L, and a venue that finished third of eleven company-wide.

Founder of National Ventures and Damaria Advisory Group, and the author of five books on operating under pressure and building organizations that last.