Dan Berlin

About

Dan is an enterprising entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and endurance athlete who happens to be blind. He believes in creating opportunity and giving back around the globe. After more than 12 years of working in large multi-national corporations, he co-founded Rodelle, a world-leading vanilla extract company, which sold to Archer-Daniels Midland Company in 2018, and subsequently exited as CEO at age 48. Founding partner of AfriTech Catalytic Growth Fund, currently focused on early stage tech accelerated companies on the African continent. Dan is a co-founder and President of Team See Possibilities, a non-profit organization which empowers young people with vision loss to thrive by providing scholarship and mentorship to high achieving college students who are vision impaired. Dan is a member of and co-founded Team Sea to See which was comprised of four blind cyclists riding tandem bicycles in the 2018 Race Across America, known as the toughest bike race in the world. They completed the race in an amazing 7 days, 15 hours, and 3 minutes. Surpassing Sight, the full-length documentary about the race, produced by Sterling Light Films is planned for release in 2023. Dan also enjoys taking on epic endurance challenges around the world, challenging the perception of what a person with vision loss is capable of achieving. Dan completed the 46 mile rim to rim to rim run across the Grand Canyon and back, and has subsequently run over a dozen marathons, Ironman triathlons, as well as trail-ultramarathons in South America, Africa, Asia and New Zealand. Dan enjoys finding and uplifting ability in himself and others.

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