A senior executive with Geto & de Milly, Daniel leads winning public affairs campaigns for the firm’s corporate and nonprofit clients. He specializes in real estate, land use, sports and economic development, advancing key client objectives in the built environment.
Daniel heads Geto & de Milly’s sports development practice, working with high-profile sports teams, leagues, team owners, and recreational enterprises to successfully realize their goals for infrastructure, market entry, expansion, fan-cultivation, and world-class sporting events. He has represented groups from across the U.S. as well as London, Manchester, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai and Auckland. His work ensures that Geto & de Milly continues to be the industry leader in the New York and New Jersey sports sector, building on a legacy that includes 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.
Daniel has represented City Football Group, owners of NYC’s first Major League Soccer team, New York City FC, since its inception in 2013, leading the Club’s successful effort to secure municipal approval to construct the city’s first professional soccer stadium, Etihad Park, 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 Sportime-John McEnroe Tennis Academy on Randall’s Island into the world’s largest indoor tennis facility. 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 Major League Cricket team is part of the Mumbai Indians global cricket franchise, owned by Reliance Industries, India’s largest company.
Since 2011, Daniel also has represented many of the city’s leading real estate investment and development firms, winning land use approvals for numerous architecturally distinctive buildings and commercial spaces—and been active in bringing about the modernization and expansion of academic institutions, among them Trinity School, Sacred Heart, Chapin School, Dalton, and Friends Seminary.
For his work in public affairs and advocacy in New York, Daniel has been invited to speak at conferences and universities, including MIT, NYU, Fordham, and Columbia, and has twice been recognized, in 2018 and 2024, by City & State magazine.
Prior to joining Geto & de Milly, Daniel worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and 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.