Daniel Kwak

CEO & Co-founder at Paperplane

Daniel Kwak has a diverse work experience, starting with their role as CEO and Co-founder at Paperplane since 2022. In this role, they focus on improving CRM data quality and automating manual data entry using NLP technology.

Before that, they worked as an Advisor at Lightning AI, Hadrian, and Netradyne, starting from 2020, providing their expertise and guidance to these companies.

From 2020 to 2021, Daniel served as the CEO and Co-founder of Steady, where they led B2B sales and product development for a cloud-based simulation tool for design engineers. During their tenure, they successfully signed prominent hardware manufacturers such as Samsara and Verkada as customers.

Prior to their entrepreneurial ventures, Daniel worked at Point72 as a Vice President from 2017 to 2020, contributing their expertise in finance and investment strategies. Daniel also gained experience in the investment banking sector at Goldman Sachs from 2015 to 2017.

Furthermore, Daniel's work history includes being a Graduate Researcher at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT from 2013 to 2015, where they collaborated with Prof. White on developing machine learning techniques for classifying turbulence modes and intrinsic rotations in high-temperature plasma.

Daniel also worked as a Strategic Consultant at McKinsey & Company in 2014, and as a Research Assistant at the University of Michigan's Plasma Science & Technology Lab from 2010 to 2013, assisting Prof. Foster in studying turbulence modes in Hall thrusters.

Overall, Daniel Kwak has demonstrated a strong background in entrepreneurship, leadership, finance, and research across various industries and domains.

Daniel Kwak has completed a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Plasma Physics (on leave) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to that, they earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Nuclear Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Michigan. There is no available information about their education at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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