Dan Stempel

Born

Oct 3, 1968

Mother: Hilde Stempel
Father: Jack Stempel Born in Rockville Maryland and is the youngest of three children

Traveled to Germany and Austria alone

Feb 19, 1978

Family tradition to travel alone to Germany and visit relatives. 2 week-long trip.

Bar-mitzvah

Oct 30, 1981

Bar-Mitzvahed at Temple Har Shalom in Potomac Maryland.

First trip to israel

Jun 29, 1985

Traveled alone for two weeks. Went sight seeing throughout the country without a tour.

Graduated High School

Jun 17, 1986

Richard Montgomery Highschool class of 1986. Played soccer, swimming, and tennis for his high school.

First car

Aug 21, 1989

Bought a 1989 Isuzu Trooper with his own personal savings. Owned the car for 6 years before selling it.

Started co-op job at G plastics

Sep 21, 1989

Located in Pittsfield Massachusetts. Consulted on plastics designs.

Graduated college

May 30, 1990

Received his bachelor from Cornell University with distinction. Mechanical engineering major

Started job at Hewlett-Packard

Aug 1, 1990

Mechanic design engineer, designed ultrasound transducers.

Beat Scottish national team in mogul competition

Feb 16, 1992

Single handily beat the entire Scottish national mogul team in a competition at loon mountain.

Started Bunjee jumping company

Apr 15, 1992

Started Adrenaline Adventures, a business where he provided the "adventure" of bunji jumping out of a hot air balloon. From a business perspective, it was a huge failure which only lasted 5 days, however, my father believes it was a good thing because it helped him get into Stanford business school.

Engaged

Aug 15, 1993

Engaged to Diane Cohen Stempel in Sedona Arizona. Diane is originally from Portland Maine and went to college a Boston University.

Married

Dec 18, 1994

Married Diane Cohen Stempel in Boston Ma at the four seasons hotel. New in-laws were Phyllis Cohen (mother), Maurice Cohen (father), and Neil Cohen (brother)

Graduated graduate school

Dec 20, 1995

Got his masters in business and engineering at the University of Stanford.

Australia trip

Jan 6, 1996

A month-long trip to Australia. 2-week group tour and rest of it with his wife.

Move to Utah

Feb 16, 1996

He moved to Midvale Utah to ski. Loved to ski snowbird, Alta, Snowbasin, park city, Briton, and solitude. He went on to name first dog Alta after the mountain.

Got job at Boston University

Jun 1, 1996

Worked for the healthcare policy institute. This job comes in handy every so often because whenever he goes into Boston for a Redsox game, he uses his old parking pass to park at BU for free.

Moved to Watertown

Aug 23, 1996

Moved because he needed a place near new job at BU

Started job with aspect medical systems

Jul 6, 1997

Product manager. He was an employee of the company when it went public. Launched 10 products and was responsible for bringing the revolutionary Bis monitor to market. If you look closely one of the models is my mom, can you guess which one?

First child

Aug 21, 1997

Alexander Harrison Stempel. He is currently 22 and on a gap year from college. Plans to attend either Denver University or University of Vermont next year.

Moved to Wellesley

Jun 2, 1998

Moved to Wellesley because of the good school systems

Second child

Jul 12, 1999

Sydney Pearl Stempel. She is currently 20 and is attending the University of Vermont.

Started job at ACMI

Oct 22, 2001

Product manager, then a business unit manager of a BPH.

Third child

Jun 13, 2002

Chase Andrew Stempel. He is 17 and is currently a junior at Wellesley high school

Moved to other house in Wellesley

Mar 18, 2004

Moved because he needed more room for a bigger family. When he bought the house he got a 6-month long remodeling job which almost doubled the house's size. The new house is bigger and has a large office so he can get work done at home.

Big family trip to Tanazania

Jul 9, 2004

15 family members took a 2 week trip to Tanzania with a three day stop in Amsterdam on the way there.

Started job at diomed

Jun 15, 2005

Director of Marketing

Started MD connect

Jun 13, 2008

Being the director of Marketing sparked the inspiration to start his own marketing company. Dan started and still currently works for MD Connect. He has just recently launched a spinoff company called PatientCentra

Crashed RV during trip to US national parks

Jul 9, 2016

During the second to last day of a two-week trip where he maneuvered a 30 foot RV daily, Dan crashed the RV into the entrance of Grand Canyon national park. He was not aware that the extension to the master bedroom was left out while he was driving, and when he tried to go through the Grand Canyon's entrance, he was surprised to hear the sound of metal bending. Thankfully prior to going on the trip he purchased insurance through the RV rental company.