VCAT - Executive Team

Dan Goldman
Chief Executive Officer, Internet Gaming Group
Dan Goldman is a senior executive with 30 years of experience in marketing and management. Goldman’s career in high-tech systems began in marketing development with one of the world’s first retail computer chains, ComputerCraft, in 1980. Over the next 8 years, Goldman built marketing systems and departments for ComputerCraft and other industry-leading software companies.

As the Internet took off in the mid-1990s, Goldman began offering his services as a consultant to both emerging online companies and existing companies looking to extend their reach to the exploding online community. As a result of these activities, Goldman came to the attention of PriceGrabber.com, the Internet’s first shopping comparison site, who hired him to guide their transition from an internal-use tool to a mass market service. Goldman built and implemented marketing programs that allowed PriceGrabber to grow from 50,000 users in 1999 to over 8 million in 2002, culminating in the company’s acquisition by Experian.

In 2001, Goldman was offered the opportunity to combine his marketing and management experience with his favorite hobby, poker. An online poker startup, PokerStars.com, recruited Goldman to advise them on marketing programs prior to the site’s launch in late 2001. Goldman joined PokerStars full-time as VP Marketing/Chief Marketing Officer in early 2002, and was responsible for the company’s partnerships with the World Series of Poker, the World Poker Tour, NBC’s Nations Heads Up Poker Championship and a host of other strategic partnerships that brought the company to the forefront of the online poker market. Goldman left PokerStars as a result of passage of anti-gambling legislation in the US, by which time the company had grown to become the world’s largest online poker site with over 20 million players.