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Twenty-one years in live events teaches you a lot about the gap between the brief and the reality. Dan Hardinges has spent two decades in that gap — and by his own admission, he's learned to like it there. As Operations Manager for TeamPeople Managed Services, Dan looks after the onsite teams embedded within some of the world's most demanding client environments. Part account management, part mentorship, part human troubleshooting service — the kind of role where the morning you planned rarely survives contact with the day. Dan doesn't just tolerate that. He's built for it. Career highlights include technical production in the Royal Box the night the Lionesses lifted the Women's Euros trophy, and a live-streamed event reaching 25,000 people. The kind of work that only goes right because of everything that was quietly handled in the hours before it went live. Earlier this year Dan ran the London Marathon in 4:34, raising £2,668 for Oxfam. He - entirely unrelatedly - once delivered his daughter Sophie at home while being talked through it by a 999 operator. The ambulance arrived about ten minutes after she did. Sophie is now 10. Some people are simply built for high-pressure situations. Dan is one of them. We're glad he's one of ours.