Innovate, Accelerate, Build: Working with Early Stage Startups

Daniel is a member of the German Army Reserve and serves on the Leadership & Strategy Team of the German Armed Forces Innovation Hub. There, his work focuses on enabling the German military to utilize startup innovations.

In his civilian life, Daniel has spent the past ten years founding, growing, and selling several innovative tech-enabled companies in the SaaS, digital marketplaces, and professional services spaces. He has extensive experience working with major venture capital funds and structuring small and large transactions. Previously, for another ten years, he has held senior leadership roles in well known media companies in Germany and the United States.

By training, Daniel is a business lawyer with a media and entertainment industry focus, qualified in both Germany and the United States. In addition to his German and American law degrees, he attended law school in Switzerland and Hong Kong, completed executive education at Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania) and holds a Ph.D. in Law & Economics from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich.