Senior Vice President & General Manager, FamilyTreeDNA

Dave Vance

Dave Vance is a life-long genealogist with a professional career in IT services and is currently General Manager for FamilyTreeDNA. He took a National Genographic Project DNA test in 2005 and has been a genetic genealogy enthusiast ever since to the mild consternation of his family and friends. He has been the editor of the Journal of Genetic Genealogy, is a surname Group Project Administrator and haplogroup Group Project Co-Administrator, has written tools, books and articles on genetic genealogy, and finds occasions to speak publicly about various genetic genealogy topics even when he wasn’t invited to do so beforehand.