Dan Connors

Dan Connors is the General Counsel of San Francisco-based Capella Space Corp. responsible for all legal and regulatory compliance matters. He has more than 25 years of legal experience counseling public and private technology companies.

Prior to Capella Space, Dan served as General Counsel & Secretary of venture backed start-up, xG Health Solutions, Inc., a health care consulting services and software/content solutions provider to health systems and insurers, responsible for corporate governance, financings, health care data privacy, contract, employment, intellectual property, regulatory compliance and other legal matters. Dan led the winding up and eventual merger of xG into a Geisinger Health affiliate in 2019. Before xG, he was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at GeoEye, Inc., a NASDAQ traded, global provider of satellite imagery and predictive data analytics products and services, where he managed day to day legal operations for 9 years, until GeoEye was acquired by DigitalGlobe in a $1.2B acquisition in 2013.

Previously, Dan was in-house counsel to other technology companies, including Kleiner Perkins backed telecom start-up BroadBand Office, Inc. Before that he served as the international and wireless legal advisor to former Federal Communications Commissioner Susan Ness and as an attorney advisor in the FCC’s Satellite Division and Wireless Bureau.

Dan began his legal career as a corporate associate with law firms in New York City and San Francisco. During that time he was seconded as in-house counsel to Tokyo, Japan-based Tomen Corporation, advising on the development and construction of power plants and other large scale infrastructure projects in the emerging markets of Asia and the Middle East.

Prior to practicing law, Dan was a salesman for IBM and a telecommunications analyst for MCI.

Dan earned his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School and a B.S., Finance from the University of Maryland. He also volunteers as a Legal Advisor to student entrepreneurs at the University of Maryland’s Dingman Entrepreneurship Center in the Smith School of Business. Dan lives in Bethesda, MD with his wife and three children.