Over three decades, Daniel Pellegrom has served as CEO of three organizations, with that time almost evenly divided between organizations that work domestically and internationally. Dan has managed advocacy campaigns and capital campaigns, and led organizations during times of political opposition and even terrorist attack. (The Planned Parenthood clinic in Annapolis, Maryland, for which he provided design and construction oversight and funding, was bombed by arsonists in 1984).

Dan is in his twenty-second year as the CEO of Pathfinder International. He has led Pathfinder from a much smaller organization to its current place as one of the leading reproductive health and family planning associations. During Dan's tenure Pathfinder was named recipient of the United Nations Population Award in 1996, thus becoming only the second U.S.-based organization to win this recognition.

Dan serves on various boards of directors, including World Neighbors; the Brush Foundation, where he is president of the board of managers; and InterAction, where he is the immediate past chair. He also serves on the board of overseers of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. He has written op-ed pieces for The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, andThe New York Times and provides testimony at Congressional hearings and other public forums.