Daniel Porter

Daniel Jonathan Porter (born June 13, 1966) is a Jewish American Internet entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Overtime, a digital sports platform. He was previously the Head of Digital at William Morris Endeavor, the former CEO of OMGPOP and the creator of the Draw Something mobile game. Following to the sale of OMGPOP to Zynga, he was the GM of Zynga New York for one year following the sale. He also served as the first President of Teach For America

Born in Cambridge MA, Porter was raised in Ardmore, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. His parents were college professors at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College. His great uncle is the Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman. He is married to filmmaker Melanie Judd and they have two sons.

Porter began by teaching at Clara Barton High School in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. in 1990 he joined the early team of Teach America at its first summer training institute and in 1994 became the President of Teach For America where he worked on the expansion of the program to Phoenix and Seattle and the Americorps program. After leaving Teach For America, Porter ran Cities in Schools, a youth organization in New York City, which also was a partner with Goldman, Sachs in running the High School, Metropolitan Corporate Academy.

In 1999 Porter served as the President of TicketWeb. He led its sale to TicketMaster (IAC) in 2000.

Porter also worked for Richard Branson's Virgin Group where he started the Virgin Festival in North America, ran Corporate development for Virgin USA and invested in several companies.

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