The people building Wildfire

Daniel B. Henry

CEO and Primary Inventor

Before Wildfire: An intellectual property attorney in electrical and computer patent prosecution at an IP firm. This year he was named to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Patent Law and in Intellectual Property Law. He has been published in General Counsel Weekly. He holds a computer science degree from Kalamazoo College and a JD from Loyola University Chicago.

Drake Johnson

COO and Lead Strategist

Before Wildfire: He started his first company at 26. Since then he has started and run companies in real estate, entertainment, travel, investing and AI. He has also been an angel investor. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in environmental science. There he earned varsity letters in football and track and field.

Bilal Hassan

CTO

At Wildfire: Builds the Wildfire app and the admin site.

Before Wildfire: Twenty-five years building data and platform systems at national scale. He was Divisional Vice President for Data, Analytics and Customer Solutions at Walgreens. He was VP and Chief Architect at Brunswick Corporation and at AIM Specialty Health. He was Assistant Director of Enterprise Architecture at University of Chicago Medicine. Before that, he spent fourteen years as an enterprise data architect. He worked for the Defense Logistics Agency, DISA, the Pentagon, the Army, the Marine Corps, the Department of Commerce and the intelligence community.

Christina Jordan

Chief Brand Officer

At Wildfire: Leads Wildfire’s brand and marketing.

Before Wildfire: She built her career as a marketing strategist, entrepreneur and community leader. She has experience in brand development, corporate sales and nonprofit operations. She has run marketing programs, organized community events and built partnerships between businesses and nonprofits. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from West Virginia University. She also holds an Executive MBA from Texas Southern University.

Brady Butler

Chief Marketing Officer

At Wildfire: Leads Wildfire’s marketing strategy.

Before Wildfire: He spent seven years running performance marketing and paid acquisition across e-commerce, health and wellness, financial services and real estate. He founded HeroFlow, an AI automation agency that builds AI voice employees for businesses. He was Vice President of Marketing at Tactive Wealth. There he led advisor recruitment marketing as the firm grew past $1 billion in assets under management. He was also CEO of Butler Media, a performance marketing agency. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University and completed graduate study at Colorado State University.

Melvin Bonsu

Chief Financial Officer

At Wildfire: Builds Wildfire’s finance function and leads its investor outreach and strategy. He also draws on his network to help grow the number of people using Wildfire.

Before Wildfire: He worked in investment banking and private equity. He is now a director of strategic finance and operations in the pharmaceutical industry.