Daniel's mission is protecting the relationship between humans and nature. Working to increasingly leverage at a deeper axis for positive societal change, he has held founding and leadership roles in a variety of sectors and with institutions such as XPRIZE Foundation, Burning Man Project, and the Long Now Foundation. He is currently the co-founder of Reconnect Clinics, Reconnect Labs, and Reconnect Foundation.

1990s: environmental activist and film maker protesting old growth logging to the WTO and working with indigenous tribes across the American west.

2000s: led large landscape conservation projects resulting in over 100,000 acres of permanently protected properties from Alaska to Costa Rica.

2010s: leveraged large institutional and foundation capital in order to fund high-growth, high-risk, high-impact projects from health to environment and founded and financed several impact ventures in mental health.

2020s: helped cofound Reconnect Labs, a Swiss psychedelic drug development company, and Reconnect Foundation, funding indigenous eco-cultural conservation efforts in the Amazon basin and the research of consciousness. This year, Daniel is launching Reconnect Clinics: a community-centered group of clinics where the first legal research, education, and practice with psychedelic therapies and consciousness technologies can occur in Europe.