Dan Schweiker
Co-Founder, Co-Chairman & Co-Chief Executive Officer

• Born July 3, 1949 in Des Moines, Iowa
  
• Attended University of Arkansas (1967-69) & University of Iowa (1969-71)
  Juris Doctorate Degree, Drake University, 1976
  
• Twenty-five years in coffee & tea industry.

Current Community & Professional:

• Town Council Member, Town of Paradise Valley, Arizona (since 1998)
  
• Board Member, Scottsdale Convention and Visitors Bureau (since 1998)
  
• Member, Maricopa Association of Governments Transportation Policy Committee (since 2002-2006)
  
• Board of Directors, Friends of Public Radio [Phoenix] (since 2002)
  
• Honorary Board Member, Teach For America [Arizona] (since 2000)
  
• Honorary Board Member, Business Volunteers For The Arts [Phoneix] (since 1994)
  
• Member, Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations

Past Community & Professional:

• Board of Directors, Teach For America [Arizona], 1995-2000; President, 1996-2000
  
• Board of Directors, Children's Action Alliance, 1995-2004; President, 1997-1999
  
• Board of Directors, Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, 1997-98
  
• Board of Directors, Phoenix Day Child Development Center, 1987-1997; Chair, 1990-91
  
• Board Member, Phoenix Local Development Corporation, 1986-90; President, 1989
  
• Board of Directors, Phoenix City Club, 1986-1993, President, 1990

Awards:

• Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce, Small Business of the Year [Sterling Award] (1996)
  
• Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, Small Businessperson of the Year (1994)
  
• Entrepreneur of the Year Award® (1993)

Dan Schweiker was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa and moved to Arizona in 1978. He is married to Suzanne Smith, President of Suzanne Smith Interior Design Ltd.

Quote: "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo