Dan Sachs is a professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and the executive director of Deep Tech Ventures at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He was formerly a professor of entrepreneurship, hospitality management, and service leadership at DePaul University, as well as the president of Meerkat Restaurant Advisory, an A-list advisory group. From 1999 to 2015, he owned the Bin 36 restaurant group, where he developed and operated several wine-focused restaurants and worked with famous restaurateurs including Danny Meyer, Drew Nieporent, and Paul Bartolotta. He has an AB from Harvard College and a master’s degree from the Parisian culinary school École de Cuisine La Varenne. He lives in Chicago, IL.