Dan Privott

Biography

My wife of thirty years and I have three daughters, the middle of whom graduated from Belmont in May 2020.  We are recent empty-nesters and decided to build a house in Lebanon.  When I’m not working or teaching, I love coaching girls softball, which I did with all three of my daughters, both travel and recreational, and which I continue to do at Mt Juliet League. 

I earned a business degree from Wake Forest and later an MBA, with emphases in finance and accounting from Vanderbilt.  I have completed the coursework component of a DBA from Liberty and now face the dissertation phase with an accounting cognate. 

I started my career as a financial statement auditor for Coopers & Lybrand in St. Louis, followed by a short stint at Deloitte & Touche here in Nashville.  In 1997, I was recruited by my neighbor to join the Oracle implementation team for a Nashville-based company, which was launching a multi-year Oracle project.  I have been doing systems consulting and Oracle ERP project work ever since. 

I have always wanted to teach.  I started in 2014 teaching Excel to accountants at Cumberland University in Lebanon, TN in what had to be a God-ordained moment.  I joined Belmont as an adjunct in the spring of 2020. 

I have had a professional career focused on client service where any spiritual significance was not apparent or visible and certainly not emphasized.  It was often difficult to see the real benefit of our work to the individuals who we interacted with on a daily basis for months at a time.  I am so very excited to be part of a Christ-focused organization where I can actively influence my students and the larger community with the love and peace of Jesus.