Dan Veltri, the owner and founder of Treehouse Video, has worked professionally with the Deaf community since 1977, when he was trained and certified as a sign language interpreter. After working at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, New York, he settled in San Francisco and worked at the University of California Center on Deafness. While at the Center, Dan designed several training productions, and he began studies in the graduate program in Broadcast Communication Arts at San Francisco State University. He graduated in 1993 and received the Master's Hood for Outstanding Achievement. Dan created Treehouse Video in 1993 in order to harness the power of technology to help people communicate and learn, especially in the area of sign language and interpreting.