Dan Loague
Executive Director
Capital Formation Institute
R. Dan Loague Executive Director, Capital Formation Institute, Inc. Mr. Loague is the Executive Director of the Capital Formation Institute, Inc (CFI). With the CFI Board of Directors and Advisors, all distinguished researchers and practitioners in capital formation and enterprise creation, Mr. Loague is building the CFI's capability to gather detailed and comprehensive information on the early stage investing process and to make this information readily accessible to the public. CFI provides several resources to assist development leaders at all levels to build the knowledge base needed to stimulate growth of an entrepreneurial culture: a.. Web-accessible documents and audio programs of current professional practices on seed and early stage investing. CFI's ViewPoints contains of articles on state-of-the-art best practices and VC Online makes available in-depth audio-on-demand interviews with the nation's leading seed and early stage investing professionals. Since its inception in 2005, the CFI Website has had more than 3,500 unique visitors and 150,000 hits, with up to 25% of viewers spending 30 minutes or more on the site. b.. Handbook and teaching curriculum on all phases of seed and early stage investing c.. Interactive train-the-trainer workshops on the basics of seed and early stage investing d.. Networking-based symposia to explore best practices in building an innovation economy, and to develop and strengthen the culture of entrepreneurship and harness local seed investor funding resources. e.. Global technology and venture investor conferences CFI is a 501(c)(3) organization, established in 2004 as an independent spin-off from the prestigious National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF). The NASVF began as an ad hoc group in 1993 to promote information transfer among practicing parties in economic development and now is the nation's largest network of seed-stage and technology investment. Mr. Loague is a former university professor and instructor. His has held teaching positions at the University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City University (OCU) and Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford OK. As part of OCU's International MBA program, during 1989, Mr. Loague taught on-site at Wuhan, People's Republic of China. Mr. Loague’s educational background includes two-year’s doctoral study at Arizona State University, Tempe, Master of Arts in Teaching, University of Kansas, Lawrence and Bachelor of Arts, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Mr. Loague is a veteran of the United States Air Force, serving from 1963-67. His primary service duties were to work with test pilots to perform technical and performance evaluations of advanced airborne electronic reconnaissance systems of the RF-4C, a Mach II aircraft.
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