| Website | caganco.com |
| Birthplace | Los Angeles, CA |
| Birthdate | 3/45 |
| UCLA University of California at Los Angeles, no degree | |
| Economics |
Dennis J. Cagan
Mr. Cagan is a high-technology industry executive and successful entrepreneur. He has founded or co-founded over a dozen different companies, and in addition to his entrepreneurial activities Mr. Cagan has been a c-level executive (both public and private companies), consultant, venture capitalist, private investor, and professional board member - 46 corporate boards. In 2011 he was elected to the IT Hall of Fame - Channel Wing, administered by CompTIA.
Dennis is an internationally recognized authority in information technology, including: Internet, software, hardware, and communications, in the disciplines of strategy, sales, distribution channels, marketing, services, logistics and distribution. On more than one occasion Mr. Cagan has been responsible for international sales and has actively done business in 35 countries. He has authored dozens of articles and spoken frequently. In 1979 he was the Keynote Speaker at the first COMDEX Show in Las Vegas. In 1976 he founded the David Jamison Carlyle Corp. (his 5th start-up), turning it into one of the country’s largest distributors of computer peripherals, and taking DJC public (NASDAQ) in 1981.
Over the years Mr. Cagan has had consulting relationships with companies large and small including AT&T, IBM, Digital, BellSouth, Kodak, Xerox, General Electric, TRW, Wang, U.S. West and others. Since 1985 Mr. Cagan has served as a shadow or interim C-level executive usually for companies where he was already a member of the Board.
Before returning to his consulting practice, Caganco Incorporated, in 2011, Mr. Cagan served as CEO of NL Systems LLC (dba Encryptics) in Frisco, TX, an information assurance/encryption/secure content management software firm; and SureBooks LLC, based in McKinney, TX, a SaaS company providing financial services and processing for small-medium size businesses and accounting firms.
The Cagan’s moved from Santa Barbara to Dallas when, from May 2006 to July 2008, Mr. Cagan stepped in as a Board Member and served as the Chairman, CEO and President of TWL Corporation (TWLO.OB). Prior to running TWL Dennis founded, and still runs, the Santa Barbara Technology Group, LLC, a private incubator and investment firm engaged primarily in working with, and investing in early-stage technology companies.
Mr. Cagan currently serves on four corporate Boards of Directors: www.acorntech.com, www.receipt.com, www.merchantnational.com, and www.mytruston.com.
He attended the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) where he majored in economics, and he has an honorable discharge from the USMC. Mr. Cagan and his wife Angelia live in Plano, TX with their youngest of four daughters, and are active in their church.
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