Dan is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel PCS at HMH, an international equipment, services and technology company serving the oil & gas industry.  Dan has responsibility for legal issues related to the Pressure Control Systems (PCS) global businesses, including serving as counsel and advisor to leadership, determining business strategy, managing insurance and compliance, leading a team of legal professionals, communicating with industry regulators, managing litigation and intellectual property, supporting mergers & acquisitions, negotiating customer contracts with private and state-owned energy companies, leading the legal team’s response to issues concerning customers and third party agents, managing product safety, HSE and recall issues, managing outside counsel, and a wide variety of other issues that affect and impact HMH and the industry.  Dan also currently serves as the Honorary Consul General and Head of Post in the New Zealand Consulate in Houston with jurisdiction in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. 

Prior to accepting his current role, Dan served as Senior Commercial Counsel at GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes.  He was previously a Senior Associate with the International M&A group at Vinson & Elkins LLP in the Beijing and Houston offices, and was Of Counsel with Wikborg Rein, a European law firm, in the Shanghai office, where he led a team of corporate associates and focused on international mergers & acquisitions and transactions related to the upstream energy industry.  After law school, Dan served as a Federal Law Clerk for Chief Judge John H. Hannah, Jr., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas.  Dan, a native of Texas, earned a Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas, graduating Salutatorian in his class (2001).  Dan graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in Communications (1992).  Dan speaks Spanish and conversational Chinese.