Dan Shropshire is the Vice President of Teledyne Marine Vehicle Business Development and Project Execution in North Falmouth Massachusetts. In this role, Dan oversees business and strategic development, community engagement, business acquisitions, program management, and product development for a variety of Teledyne products which include: the Webb Slocum Glider, Webb APEX Profiling floats, Benthos Acoustic Systems, Gavia AUVs, SeaBotix ROVs, OceanScience ASVs, and TapTone inspection systems. Dan came to work for Teledyne in 2013 and has held several different positions including Program Manager, Director of Product Line Management and Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for Marine Vehicles. While at Teledyne, Dan has managed several project lines and worked on several large programs including multiple vehicle design and development projects and low frequency acoustics for the Seismic Industry. Dan started his career as a systems engineer working on commercial Geo Communications Satellites at Hughes Space and Communications and later worked for over ten years for TRW / Northrop Grumman at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as Program Manager for NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and Executive Management certificate form UCLA's Anderson School of Management.