Daniel co-founded Agility Capital in 1999. He has 25 years of experience providing structured debt products to emerging growth venture capital backed and small cap public companies. He has been involved with over 500 transactions. His favorite saying is “it’s easy to say no, let’s try to find a way to do the deal”.
In 1996 he co-founded Sand Hill Capital, a leading Venture Debt provider located in Menlo Park, California. He served as a General Partner and was involved with all facets of the fund.
Prior to founding Sand Hill, Daniel spent 10 years with Silicon Valley Bank and Bank of the West in the Technology Lending Groups of both institutions. He was instrumental in the formation of the technology lending philosophy, and was directly involved in lending, underwriting, debt restructuring and warrant valuation.
Daniel has private company operating experience serving as the co-founder and CFO of Planetweather, an internet based weather site and as interim Chairman of Paraform Corporation, a digital software company. He played a key role in selling both of these companies.
He is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, an active member of the Commercial Finance Association, and with the help of his wife an organic Avocado farmer and Chicken rancher.
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