Dan Sommer is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Trilogy Education Services. He served as the Division President at Caivis. Prior to joining XL Marketing in connection to its acquisition of Caridan Marketing Labs, a leading social media and interactive marketing agency he founded in 2007, he served as SVP at HNW, a strategic marketing firm focused on the affluent segment, where he built the firm's direct and interactive marketing capability. Prior to HNW, he worked at Digitas Inc. where he led online marketing and web development efforts for American Express. Prior to Digitas, he served as Vice President at Zustek. He has an MS from NYU and a BS in Applied Economics and Business Management from Cornell University.