Daniel Ford

Built and managed a team of expert political consultants with expertise in finance, field, and digital strategies, providing strategic planning and execution to campaigns and organizations at the state and federal levels.

● Created and oversaw strategy for eleven national and statewide campaigns and one federal PAC in

2018, successfully insuring campaigns met their goals for budgets, schedules and communications.

● Recruited, trained, and oversaw senior level campaign staff in fundraising, communications, and campaign management.

● Developed and managed relationships with high level consultants and vendors to successfully fulfill campaign needs and execute strategic goals.

● Created easy-to-execute fundraising strategies that enabled campaigns to achieve ambitious fundraising goals.

Rescued an existing software platform and client base of a collapsing SaaS company. Successfully salvaged the platform and sold it as a profitable enterprise in under 18 months, guaranteeing the employment of the entire staff moving forward.

● Oversaw and managed a staff of 12 across both technical and non-technical teams.

● Negotiated software licenses and other necessary agreements to keep clients' businesses operational during a complicated transition.

● Developed and managed relationships with vendors, clients, investors, and external partners.

Overhauled the entire non-technical side of a SaaS company to decrease costs, increase efficiency, and successfully grow the company. Oversaw a period of 300% growth in GMV and revenue between May 2015 and April 2016.

● Developed and implemented process for customer support and account management, saving the company over $19,000 monthly by moving support in-house.

● Developed and implemented trainings for the sales, customer support, and account management teams.

● Recruited, hired, and mentored non-technical staff including other senior management.

Created and executed a plan to apply NationBuilder software to city governance to grow sales and make city offices more responsive to constituents.

● Consulted in strategic planning, product assistance, and staff training for large scale campaigns and city government offices across the United States.

● Developed relationships with political candidates, elected officials, and political organizations and converted those relationships into new customers for NationBuilder.

● Mentored new staff in relationship development, sales skills, and strategic planning.

Developed data-driven analysis of competitive races at all levels, determined targets and program needs in each race, contributing to the largest Democratic victories in the state since the 1970s

● Created analysis of polling, demographic, and electoral data and cross referenced that data with analysis of fundraising and electoral potential in order to make strategic recommendations to 19 partner organizations, influencing resource allocation throughout PA.

● Served as Deputy Director for statewide GOTV Vote program. Oversaw 9 supervisors responsible for managing over 300 canvassers across the state. This program directly contacted over 800,000 voters in the three weeks preceding Election Day.

Defied conventional wisdom, defeating an established candidate who had institutional support while being outspent 3:1.

● Developed and implemented campaign plan including finance plan, campaign message and field plan.

● Recruited, trained, and managed a full paid campaign staff and volunteer team.

Trained and managed union members in effective advocacy efforts for both candidate elections and achieve policy goals. Led grassroots lobbying efforts for Western Ohio.

Developed a statewide organization that included over 100 healthcare professionals for SEIU's

Healthcare United campaign in Iowa, contributing to Presidential and down-ballot victories in that state.