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Dan Gilbert
Livonia, Michigan

Dan Gilbert is chairman and founder of Quicken Loans Inc., the nation’s largest online lender and a top-five retail home lender in the United States. Dan is also majority owner of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers and operator of the Quicken Loans Arena (“The Q”) in Cleveland, Ohio.

Quicken Loans employs more than 4,500 people nationally and has ranked in the top 30 of FORTUNE Magazine’s "100 Best Companies to Work For" for the past eight years. The company was also named highest in customer satisfaction among all U.S. home loan lenders in a benchmark study by J.D. Power and Associates. Quicken Loans recently moved its headquarters to downtown Detroit, where Dan and the company are helping lead a revitalization of the city’s core.

Dan became majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2005 and undertook a complete overhaul of the organization, installing a new philosophy and winning strategy. Shortly after, the Cavaliers won the 2007 Eastern Conference Championship, advancing to the NBA Finals for the first time in the team’s 37-year history.

Dan and his partners are invested and involved in more than 40 businesses, which employ 7,000 team members nationwide and represent a variety of industries, including financial services, sports and entertainment, consumer-direct marketing, education and more.

Among Dan’s non-profit endeavors is Bizdom U, an entrepreneurial academy that trains, mentors and finances start-up businesses in Detroit and Cleveland. Bizdom’s mission is to create successful businesses, jobs and growth in large urban centers.

In addition to the Children’s Tumor Foundation, Dan serves on the Boards of the Cleveland Clinic and the Children’s Hospital Foundation, an affiliate of Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC). Dan also serves as Vice Chairman of the non-profit M-1 RAIL initiative, formed to lead the vision and implementation of light-rail transportation in downtown Detroit.

Dan earned his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and his law degree from Wayne State University. He has received the "Entrepreneur of the Year" award from Ernst & Young.

Dan and his wife Jennifer live in Michigan with their five children. Their oldest son was born with NF1. Dan and Jennifer have established two Gilbert Neurofibromatosis Clinics – CNMC in Washington D.C. and Dana Children’s Hospital/Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center in Israel – to advance research and treatment of neurofibromatosis.