ABOUT CONNECT NETWORKS
Built on real insight
and real experience.
Connect Networks didn't start as a product idea. It started as a question: What happens when you systematically connect people working toward the same goals around the world?
AN ORIGINAL ORIGIN
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Connect Networks grew out of a simple question: What happens when you systematically connect people working in climate and sustainability around the world?
The answer evolved into Climate & Capital Connect, a global network that produced thousands of introductions across roles, geographies, and disciplines. Water policy experts in Poland. Fintech innovators in New York. Waste management educators in Trinidad & Tobago. The connections that looked unlikely on paper turned out to be the most valuable in practice.
Connect Networks is the infrastructure we built from those lessons — reimagined, refined, generalized, and now available to any organization serious about turning their community into a competitive advantage.
OUR BELIEF
The most valuable asset in any community isn't the content, the programming, or even the leadership.
It's the people in it—and the expertise, experience, and perspective they carry. That’s often lost, unknown, or doesn’t get activated.
We believe human connection works best when it's reciprocal, contextual, tangible, and grounded in trust. That connection grows through meaningful exchange and listening. And decades of research shows that it leads directly to the outcomes we want—from innovation and knowledge-transfer to collaboration and real-world engagement.
We believe that people do better — better work and better themselves — when ideas flow and people are more connected to the world around them in ways that work for them.
THE TEAM
The humans behind Connect.
Dana Siegel
CMO
Dana leads marketing, the development of Connects' consumer-facing programs, and the brand experience. With decades of experience in the complex world of purpose-led brands, she brings deep insight on community building and member engagement.
David Garrison
CEO
David founded Connect Networks with the conviction that the most valuable resource in any community is its people, the understanding that connection has material social and business impact, and a belief that 1:1 conversation is where lasting change starts.
A proud Canadian, David loves photography, good stories, and baking scones for his wife and three inspiring kids.
Jesse Chan-Norris
CTO
Jesse oversees the platform's technical architecture — the matching algorithms, automation infrastructure, and insight reporting that make Connect Networks both powerful and effortless to operate. He makes sure we stay true to our philosophy of humanistic minimalism: That everything we do centers on human interaction, and that we minimize the footprint of the technology.
THE NETWORKS WE POWER
EXPERT PERSPECTIVES
"Connect is networking that cares about the process as much as the outcome. Because of that, it gets to the outcomes we really care about."
ALEJANDRO CRAWFORD
Clinical Professor of Innovation, Bard College
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