Dan Swanson Entrepreneur, design engineer, marketing expert

I'm an electrical engineer and designed 250 products for companies like Apple, Nortel, Texas Instruments and over 100 smaller companies. Co-inventor of WiFi Hotspots, have raised over $300 million, mostly used for product development and launches.

I've helped generate over $3.2 billion in new products and product launches. Have spent more than $250,000 on seminars and books to become a marketing expert in addition to being a product designer of 250 products.

I've helped companies save more than $5.4 billion in operating costs. Automated one of Apple's factors reducing workers needed from 500 down to less than 10 using a dozen robots, increased the productivity of call centers with custom workstations improving productivity 400% saving $90 million a year in labor and $36 million in capital equipment. Helped 6,000 hotels reduce costs by more than $3 billion. Focus on improving the processes first then automation and system optimization.