Profile

 Dan Mullin is a Senior Vice-President at Major League Baseball. He was selected to be the first head of the Department of Investigations, a department created in the aftermath of the “Mitchell Report” a comprehensive investigation into the use of performance enhancing drugs in Baseball.  He has oversight of all investigations related to players, umpires and other staff, and is responsible for due diligence investigations related to the transfer of team ownership. Dan is an industry leader in security and evacuation planning and has developed security plans at all of MLB’s major events, including the All-Star game, the World Series, and the World Baseball Classic. Dan has also worked as a consultant for the State Department, providing event planning training for government officials in South Africa and Brazil.

 

Dan works closely with the Department of Homeland Security. He is the chair of the Sports Sub-Sector for the DHS Critical Infrastructure Group. In that capacity he represents all of the Major Sports Leagues, and the NCAA with DHS. He also serves on the Life Safety Council at the International Association of Venue Managers.

 
Prior to joining Major League Baseball, Dan served 23 years with the New York City Police Department, retiring as a Deputy Chief. He last served as the Executive Officer of the Bronx, where he supervised more than 3000 police officers. He also served as the Executive Officer of the Narcotics Division, as well as the Commanding Officer the Manhattan District Attorney’s Squad, Staten Island Detectives, and the 114^th and 103^rd precincts. Dan was a first responder at the World Trade Center on 9-11 and at the crash of American Airlines flight 585.

 

Dan is a graduate of St. John’s University and New York Law School. He has been an adjunct professor at John Jay College (1993-2000) and at Seton Hall University (2001-03). He has recently provided training for both the California and Utah Departments of Homeland Security.