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Daniel Hirt

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Chief Operating Officer at Axio
📍 New York, New York, United States

Daniel Hirt is the Chief Operating Officer at Axio, leveraging a background in private equity and management consulting from firms like Vista Equity Partners and Accenture. He specializes in operational strategy and building scalable structures for rapid growth. He holds a dual JD/MBA from Northwestern University.

He maintains strong ties to the Northwestern and Kellogg School of Management community, which was foundational to Axios creation and success. He values bringing together teams with diverse backgrounds to achieve better results, a principle learned during his time at the university.

Daniel and Axios CEO, Scott Kannry, first met as classmates in Northwesterns prestigious JD-MBA program.

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Experience
23 Years
Current Role
Chief Operating Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
New York, New York, United States
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Cyber Risk Quantification
His company, Axio, was named a leader in Cyber Risk Quantification by Forrester, a topic he frequently posts about and discusses in interviews.
Scaling Businesses
He was hired to build a scalable organizational structure for Axio and previously served as Chief Transformation Officer, focusing on company-wide growth initiatives.
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Career

Work history

6-2019
Chief Operating Officer
Axio
5-2017 - 6-2019
VP Operations and Strategy
Axio
2016 - 2017
Chief Transformation Officer
TwentyEighty, a Providence Equity Partners portfolio company
2014 - 2016
Consulting Director
Vista Consulting Group
2011 - 2014
VP Transaction Services
Greenway Health, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company
In the press

Media appearances

Axio's New VP of Operations and Strategy, Daniel Hirt. Featured in Axio – Insights
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Meet the Kellogg JD‑MBAs shaping the future of cybersecurity. Featured in Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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Education
2008 - 2011
MBA
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
2008 - 2011
JD
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
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