Dan Nou was born in 1974 in Phnom Phen, Cambodia, to academic parents. His father is a physician, and his mother is a university professor.
Dan and his family had everything they could possibly want in life, but everything was lost in an instant.
Dan was born just six months before the communist Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia's capital city of Phnom Penh. At gunpoint, his family was forced out of their villa and into the killing fields.
During this time, many of his family members were killed or executed. After five years of torture, famine, and regime, his family fled to Thailand, where they were sponsored to come to Canada. Dan and his family were finally free of the regime after moving to Edmonton, Alberta, in 1980. They eventually settled in Calgary, but were confronted with a slew of new challenges. A different environment, laws, culture, language, racism and prejudice.
Dan and his family were low-income residents of a low-income neighbourhood.
His father worked as a janitor and tradesman, and his mother as a seamstress. It wasn't their profession, but they did what they had to in order to survive.
Dan had his first of three cardiac arrests/heart attacks at the age of 19, which inspired him to become a monk in order to better understand life's purpose and to honour his parents for giving him life.
Dan lived in Calgary from 1980 to 1993, and in 1993 he moved to Vancouver to further his education. His majors were business and medicine.
Dan made the decision to launch several businesses in his twenties. With projects in Canada, and the Riviera Maya region of Mexico, M8TRIX5 began as a telecommunications company and has since expanded into real estate development, investments, hospitality and media.
Dan is a father of a 14-year-old daughter (https://instagram.com/meianouofficial/). In his spare time, Dan teaches internal martial arts at his Port Coquitlam Studio (www.m8trix5.ca/masterdannoustudio).
Dan and his family enjoy spending the winters in Mexico. To find out more about Dan's interests, hobbies follow him on social media https://www.tiktok.com/@farah_dan_meia_nou