Dan Duffy is the Founder and CEO of United Real Estate Group, a real estate services and franchise holding company. In his role as CEO, Duffy is responsible for the establishment and execution of the company’s long-term strategic vision. He has spent nearly 20 years focused on serving clients in a number of senior executive positions. Most recently, he served as the president and CEO of a two-time Microsoft “Global Partner of the Year” and the largest global Microsoft Business Solutions partner. Duffy started his career with Ernst & Young and was a founding member of the Chicago practice of The Center for Strategic Transactions, where he provided strategic, merger and acquisition and corporate finance advisory services to Fortune 100 companies and high-growth technology, product & services organizations. Duffy has an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. from Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.