Daniel Trimble
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Daniel Graham Trimble is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and political executive. He is currently the executive director of Lead21, a prominent public policy organization for entrepreneurship and innovation.
Trimble has served as Lead21's executive director since 01 February 2006.
He publishes a blog called Eternal Vigilance, which appears to be inactive.
Politically, he has claimed to be a moderate Republican who was, earlier in his adult life, a Democrat. He claims his political interests and values are similar to those of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, current California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Senator John McCain and New York Governor George Pataki. He has claimed to like Democrat politicians such as former U.S. Senator from Georgia Zell Miller, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, U.S. Senator from Connecticut Joseph Lieberman, and former U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
He has taken strong issue publically with the lack of voter participation in U.S. elections and his generation's own passive interest in politics.
Trimble claims the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 inspired his joining the military (United States Coast Guard Reserves) and becoming politically active. After joining the reserves and before joining Lead21, Trimble reportedly started a consulting company called The Convere Group, focused on technology companies developing products for public benefit--principally homeland security, economic development and intelligence technologies.
According to Lead21's official website, his biography shows a background in high-tech engineering, marketing and product management, previously with Mercury Interactive (MERQE, sold to Hewlett-Packard) and Freshwater Software (acquired by Mercury), Decise Corporation, Autodesk, Inc. (ADSK) and the Autodesk Foundation, and an unknown number of early stage Silicon Valley startups as an independent consultant. He was elected twice as a Vice President of the Association of Internet Professionals' San Francisco chapter, while the organization was in its prime in the late 1990s.
Trimble started three companies while a teenager in high school, a computer training and consulting company in 1993, Powerware International in 1994, and EdgeMedia, a Web/interactive media design agency in 1996. All three companies reportedly had varying degrees of success, but ultimately closed.
Trimble claims to be a sixth generation San Franciscan and grew up in San Rafael, California. He is related to Hollywood location manager Scott Trimble.
