Dan Sachs is the president of Meerkat Restaurant Advisory, an A-list hospitality advisory group. He is a professor of entrepreneurship, hospitality management and service leadership at DePaul University as well as the Entrepreneur in Residence at DePaul's Coleman Entrepreneurship Center. He has an AB from Harvard College and a master's degree from the Parisian culinary school Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne. He lives in Chicago, IL.