Dan Shore, M.B.A., J.D.

Dan Shore is the interim chief operating officer of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Previously, Shore had been CFO at Broad from 2019 to 2023, focusing on building and scaling the capabilities of the finance function to accommodate ongoing growth in the scientific community.

Prior to joining Broad, Shore served as the integration lead at Brandwatch, a consumer insight analytics company, guiding their merger with Crimson Hexagon. Prior to the merger, Shore led Crimson Hexagon’s finance team as SVP and CFO. Shore also served as CFO at Onshape, a CAD software company.

Before his time in the tech sector, Shore was CFO at Harvard University from 2008 to 2014, where he shepherded the university through the global financial crisis. Before the CFO appointment, he served as Harvard’s director of the Office of Budgets and Financial Planning. There, he established the university’s multi-year financial planning process and helped launch the Harvard Corporation committee on finance. He fostered new approaches to a range of financial challenges, including managing liquidity and debt, funding major initiatives and capital projects, and procuring goods and services.

Previously, Shore was a consultant at McKinsey & Company and a corporate attorney at Nutter McClennen & Fish.

Shore earned his B.A. from Duke University, his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.B.A. from the University of Virginia.