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, and owners 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, the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, and the Mets Brooklyn Cyclones ballpark in Coney Island.
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 Etihad Park, the city’s first professional soccer stadium. For more than a decade, he 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, modular stadium complex in New York which hosted the 2024 games. Daniel is currently leading the development of MI New York’s first 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. He is also helping to coordinate activities for the upcoming LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which will see New York City host matches for the 2028 Olympic Football Tournament for the first time in the city’s history.
Since 2011, Daniel has also 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. Complementing his private sector work, he has facilitated the modernization and expansion of the city’s foremost academic institutions, among them Trinity School, Sacred Heart, Chapin, Dalton, and Friends Seminary.
For his work in public affairs and advocacy in New York, Daniel has twice been recognized, in 2018 and 2024, by City & State magazine. He has been a guest speaker at various conferences and universities, including NYU, Fordham, and Columbia, and served for over ten years as an advisor to MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
Prior to joining Geto & de Milly, Daniel worked on Capitol Hill 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.