Dan Servos

Daniel Robert Servos (born in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian entrepreneur. Along with the Founders, Anish Acharya (COO) and Jeson Patel (CTO/VP Products), Dan is best known for his start-up success as CEO of SocialDeck, Inc., the leading mobile social game company acquired by Google Inc. in August 2010.
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Dan is also known for his start-up success with Quack.com, the first popular Voice Portal platform, where, as SVP Strategic Partnerships (Business Development), he led the Quack team efforts to sign commercial agreements with major internet portal companies. This included America Online, which ultimately led to AOL's acquisition of Quack.com in 2000.
InternetNews discussed Quack and its acquisition by AOL in more detail. Prior to acquisition Lycos licensed Quack's services for their own voice portal and this is outlined in a Cambridge Telecom Report. Quack.com company web site (historical link)
Servos remained with AOL until the fall of 2007. He held various executive positions while there including Vice President of Telecom Solutions, Vice President & GM of Premium Mobile Services (a business unit he started and led for several years ) and Vice President, Strategy and Business Development - Voice Services.
Servos was then recruited to become the CEO of GWN Software Inc. in Toronto, Canada and SVP, Business Development of NeoEdge Networks, Inc. in Mountain View, California and after 17 months of successfully leading the growth of NeoEdge Networks through partnerships as SVP, Business Development, Dan was promoted to President & CEO of NeoEdge Networks. Under Dan's leadership, NeoEdge was recognized by Red Herring reports .
In September, 2009, Dan successfully raised a $4M USD Series A round lead by VanEdge Partners and Jefferson Partners, as reported by [http://games.venturebeat.com/2009/09/29/neoedge-raises-4m-for-in-game-video-ads-from-game-focused-vc-firm/ VentureBeat: NeoEdge raises $4M for in-game video ads from Game-focused VC firm].
Then in November, 2009, Dan led a successful merger with OffSpring Games to direct the company towards Social Gaming.
In April 2010, Dan was recruited to become CEO & President of SocialDeck, Inc., the leader in socially enabling mobile games across iPhone, Android and Blackberry smartphones and tablets with their "Spark" service.
Three months later, SocialDeck led by Dan and the Founders, Anish Acharya (COO) and Jeson Patel (CTO/VP Products), was acquired by Google Inc.

Dan is married to Susanna Maria and father to Jordan Robert, Jeffrey Daniel, Alexandra Maria and stepfather to Mitchell James Daniels.

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