Prior to founding RiXtrema, Daniel worked as an Associate Director of Risk Research at FactSet, where he was responsible for researching and developing software products in the areas of risk measurement and risk reporting. He speaks at numerous financial conferences and has published articles dealing with risk management issues in such magazines as Journal of Asset Management, Investment and Pensions Europe, Journal of Risk Model Validation, the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions, as well as in a number of whitepapers and an E-book. Daniel is a winner of the Outstanding Author Contribution Award at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012 for his work titled “The New Paradigm of Risk Management” published as a chapter in Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability (volume 2). Daniel holds BS and MBA degrees from the University of the Pacific.