Dan Ptak

Dan Ptak earned a B.S. in Marketing Entrepreneurship from the University of Dayton in 2007. They are the founder and CEO of JumpSeat, a strategic B2B advisory group focused on helping teams achieve predictable, sustainable growth. They previously held leadership roles at Kin + Carta and Solstice, including Vice President of Global Marketing and Business Development at Kin + Carta (2018–2020) and Director of Marketing and Brand Strategy at Solstice (2016–2018), where they helped reorganize and relaunch the Kin + Carta brand in 2020. Earlier in their career, they served as Account Director and Account Executive at Plan B, Product Manager at Simply Postcards, and held roles at Millward Brown, Technori, and Google.