Daniel Elliot
President
Dallas, TX, Thursday, May 9, 2013:
Seventeen years ago, Dan Elliott was doing something many of us have done without a second thought. He stopped in a neighborhood where he’d lived a few years earlier to make a quick phone call at the old convenience store. What ensued, however, changed his life forever.
With a gun suddenly shoved underneath his ribs, Dan was ordered by the man standing behind him to hand over his cash and car keys. Fortunately, the mugger took only Dan’s material possessions, leaving him with something much more valuable than money—his life.
What has also remained with Dan is the realization that if he had known his old neighborhood had changed for the worse, he would have stopped somewhere else.
Since that moment, he has been keenly aware that not everyone in his situation would have been fortunate enough to escape unharmed. That point was brought even closer to home when his brother’s fiancée was found murdered in her apartment a few years later. When this second devastating, needless crime took hold of his entire family, Dan was left with a deep sense of responsibility toward the safety of the people around him—a responsibility that has driven him now for nearly two decades to find a way to help prevent the same thing from happening to others.
“iWatch” is the result of that profound determination. Dan’s desire to inform communities of crimes and alert individuals to potential dangers is the force that continues to guide him. When asked about his work and dedication to this project, he only has one thing to say: “I believe my life was spared for a reason, so it’s my responsibility to pay it forward.”
As the founder of iThinQware, Inc. he’s spent the past fifteen years chipping away at the giant stone of crime prevention and crime reporting. No longer a private struggle, this project is now a public success as Iwatch launches across the US with the hope of turning every iWatch city into an informed, safer community.