Chief Fire Officer with extensive UK and International experience of critical incident decision making and strategic leadership. 

Dan is a highly experienced and operationally competent Chief Fire Officer & Chief Executive Officer.  He is currently serving as Chief Fire and Rescue Advisor and Inspector to Welsh Government. Prior to that, Dan was the Chief Officer & Chief Executive Officer of the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade having previously served for 7 years as the Chief Fire Officer of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service.

Dan led Merseyside through 7 years of the most significant challenges in the history of the organisation, maintaining excellent levels of performance throughout.

Dan has extensive operational leadership experience around critical incident decision making having been the Fire and Rescue Service Incident Commander at a number of major incidents.  He was the Chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) Operations Coordination Committee, the strategic lead officer for National Resilience and capability lead officer for Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) and the UK International Search and Rescue Team (UK ISAR).

Dan was awarded the Queens Fire Service Medal (QFSM) in the Queens New Year’s Honours List 2015 for service to the Fire and Rescue Service.