Dennis J. Cagan

Mr. Cagan is a noted high-technology industry director, executive, and entrepreneur. He has founded or co-founded over a dozen different companies, and has been a CEO of both public and private companies, a consultant, venture capitalist, private investor, and professional board member – 53 fiduciary corporate boards. In 1979 Dennis was the Keynote Speaker at the first COMDEX Show in Las Vegas. In 2011 he was elected to the IT Hall of Fame – Channel Wing, administered by CompTIA. In 2013 the Dallas Business Journal and NACD selected him as one of 12 Outstanding Directors in North Texas. Mr. Cagan is primarily engaged in management consulting through his firm Caganco Incorporated, founded in 1983. Caganco specializes in two areas: working with private company ownership and leadership to develop and manage world-class governance through boards (both fiduciary and advisory) and providing his trademarked Shadow CEO™ services comprised of an intense side-by-side approach to helping C-level executives extend their skill set. During his career Mr. Cagan has been responsible for international sales and operations, having actively done business in 35 countries. In 1976 he founded the David Jamison Carlyle Corp. (his 5th start-up), turning it into one of the country’s largest distributors of computer peripherals. After being included in Inc. Magazine’s first Inc. 100, he took DJC public (NASDAQ) in 1981. Since 1985, in addition to his consulting, Mr. Cagan has served as an interim C-level executive dozens of times – often for companies where he was already a member of the board of directors.