Dan Abel

Co-Founder and CEO, Pilot Project Brewing

Chicago

Over the last 10 years, Abel has worked coast-to-coast in businesses focused on bringing opportunity to creatives. From emerging artist programs at Google/YouTube, to helping musicians with additional revenue streams as Global Head of Marketing at Reverb, Abel took his knowledge of emerging businesses to an often overlooked group of creatives in one of his favorite industries: brewing.

One year in as Co-Founder and CEO of Pilot Project Brewing, a brewery incubator in Chicago, Abel has helped lower the barrier for creatives in the brewing industry to experiment, launched multiple startup breweries into market, maintained an industry-defining tasting room experience, and has built his niche as an innovator in the ever-evolving alcoholic beverage industry with plenty more to come.