Dara is Panorama’s Chief Operating Officer. In this role, Dara is responsible strengthening Panorama’s operations infrastructure, systems, processes, and culture to support our continued growth and impact.

Dara brings deep experience in grants and contracts management, compliance, process improvement, and team culture building to Panorama. Before joining Panorama, Dara was the Director of Grants & Contracts Services at the Gates Foundation, where he and his team managed billions of dollars in charitable investments and operations contracts each year. Prior to that, Dara was an attorney practicing in Seattle, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. He also co-founded Longman & Eagle, an award-winning restaurant and hotel business in Chicago.

In his spare time, Dara enjoys cooking, eating, shopping for, reading about, searching for, and dreaming of food. He also plays bass guitar, performing in various musical groups throughout the Seattle area.