Dan Purvis

Personal Life & Career

Dan is Velentium’s CEO and Co-Founder. He passionately leads the company’s culture development with a strong emphasis on making positive difference in not just patients’ lives, but the company’s employees. He followed up his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University with an MBA from Rice University. Throughout his career, Dan has obtained over 20 years of experience in software, electronics and medical devices. 

Dan and his wife have three sons and one daughter. In his spare time, he enjoys skiing, soccer, reading, and any contest where there is a winner and a loser!

Dan’s career started as an Applications Engineer at National Instruments, where he completed and taught over 20 LabVIEW courses during his tenure. National Instruments sent him to Michigan as a field engineer. Then, at what he now looks back on as a turning point in his life, Dan decided to relocate back to Texas, where he began opening offices for his new employer. Over the next 15 years, Dan discovered a knack for starting up new companies, which he would run in his spare time. After selling vibDaq, he promised himself that the next one would take over his career, full-time. That next company was Velentium.

Dan has always been passionate about people, who are the source of his motivation. Professional success allows Dan to bless his family, close friends, and now, his employees. He wants to be able to not only provide financial benefits to Velentium’s workers, but consistently give them the opportunity to work on meaningful and challenging projects. In turn, this gives Velentium the ability to release medical devices to the market that will benefit people all over the world.