Groups: Event Speakers TGD
Dan Swislow is the Director of Policy and Government Affairs at Mercury, the fintech that ambitious companies trust with their finances. He is an active angel investor and startup advisor, and represents Mercury as a member of the Center for American Entrepreneurship’s Corporate Advisory Council. Formerly Head of Policy and Government Relations for the Americas at Block (NYSE: SQ), he built the Fortune 500 company’s U.S. state and local, Canada, and LatAm public policy functions. Dan co-founded The Payments Coalition, chaired the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) State Government Relations Council, and was named to the 2019 ETA Forty Under 40 list. Before Block, Dan managed the Silicon Valley office of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) where he oversaw partnership with the tech sector. Dan holds an MPP from Georgetown, a BA from NYU, and studied business at IIM Ahmedabad in India. He has been a speaker or panelist at events on five continents.