A senior executive with Geto & de Milly, Daniel leads winning public affairs campaigns for the firm’s corporate and nonprofit clients. His strategic approach, expertise in government process and skill in building broad consensus serve to galvanize stakeholder support, deliver complex public approvals and achieve important policy goals. He enjoys highly productive working relationships with public officials and community leaders who trust his acumen and value his policy and political counsel.
Daniel specializes in real estate, land use, sports and economic development, advancing key client objectives in the built environment. His achievements are evident around the City in the form of architecturally distinctive, highly functional buildings and popular public spaces that reshape our communities. Daniel also has been active in bringing about the modernization and expansion of academic institutions, including Trinity School, Sacred Heart, Chapin School, Dalton, and Friends Seminary.
Daniel heads Geto & de Milly’s thriving sports development practice, working with high-profile sports teams, leagues, team owners, and recreational enterprises to successfully realize their goals for infrastructure, expansion, fan-cultivation, and world-class sporting events. His work ensures that Geto & de Milly continues to be a leader in the New York and New Jersey sports sector, building on a legacy that includes, among many other victories, securing land use approvals for the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, home of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty basketball teams, the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, and the Mets Brooklyn Cyclones minor league ballpark in Coney Island, Brooklyn.
Geto & de Milly has represented City Football Group, owners of NYC’s first Major League Soccer team, the New York City Football Club, since its inception in 2013, leading the Club’s successful effort to secure municipal approval to construct the City’s first professional soccer stadium, in Queens. For more than a decade, Geto & de Milly has represented the largest tennis club operator in the U.S., Sportime Clubs. In 2021, Daniel led negotiations for a license expanding the John McEnroe Tennis Academy on Randall’s Island into the largest indoor tennis facility in North America. More recently, Daniel worked with the International Cricket Council, the sport’s global governing body, to bring the men’s T20 Cricket World Cup to the U.S. for the first time in its history, securing approval for a 34,000-seat, temporary stadium complex in New York to host the 2024 games. Daniel is currently leading the effort to build a MI New York stadium in the Tri-State area. The region’s new professional cricket team is part of the Mumbai Indians global cricket franchise, owned by Reliance Industries, India’s largest company.
Daniel has twice been recognized, in 2018 and 2024, by City & State magazine for his exemplary work in public affairs and advocacy in New York.
Prior to joining Geto & de Milly, Daniel was Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Jose E. Serrano of the Bronx, a Member of the House Appropriations Committee. He is a graduate of Fordham University.