Daniel Benitez Email & Phone Number

Danny was born and raised in Miami, FL, where he spent his early years studying the fauna of it's mangrove swamps and tidepools, and launching model rockets from abandoned cement factories. He studied Physics, Computer Science, and Anthropology at MIT during his undergraduate years, cutting his teeth first as a research assistant at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, and later at the robotics firm Boston Dynamics. He completed his graduate studies as a Sloan fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he served as Class President of the MSx program in 2016.As CTO of Latin American technology integrator Bardan International, Daniel helped guide much of the technological transformation of the region’s cinema industry. Daniel is also co-founder and president of its sister company, D-Cinema NOC Services, a network operations center in Miami, Florida, connected to 1,800 auditoriums.He now focuses his energies on growing and developing early-stage, purpose-driven tech startups. Daniel has co-founded an alternative energy company focused on bringing renewable-energy projects to the developing world that is still in operation today, aided in the drug development of neuro-protective therapeutics, and consulted in the growth of an innovative creative design tool for cutting machines.He is currently Chief Technology Officer of a Purpose-Drive Stealth Startup that is looking to meaningfully change a large number of lives.