Daniel Offner

Daniel Offner is the Founder and serves as President & Chief Executive Officer at Blue Heron Ventures. He is the Founder & serves as Managing Partner at O&A. He has 25 years of experience as a lawyer and entrepreneur. He serves as an Advisor at SPACES (virtual reality). He has been an outside general counsel and deal lawyer for small, medium, and large companies in the technology and interactive entertainment industries. He has done hundreds of M&A deals, incorporations, financings, technology, and content deals, and has and has built and led numerous legal departments and deal teams for domestic and international clients. He is also an active angel investor and board member who appreciates the challenges of being an entrepreneur and a businessman. Dan began his legal career working as a lawyer for his father, Elliot Offner, an artist, sculptor, printmaker, and typographer. He then worked for the outside general counsel's office for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Eric Carle (the author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar) before starting Offner & Anderson, P.C. in 1995, which he built into the largest interactive entertainment law firm in the industry before its acquisition by Nixon Peabody in 2006.