Daniel D. Rubino

Daniel D. Rubino is the Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ImpactWayv. He is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GCA Capital Group, a business development, financial and legal services advisory firm in New York. Previously, he co-founded and was Chief Executive Officer of 787 Capital Group LLC, a privately-held merchant banking firm in New York. Mr. Rubino was Partner and Advisor to the 52nd Governor of the State of New York, Mario M. Cuomo, for over 15 years. Governor Cuomo was Chairman of the Board of 787 Capital. In addition, Mr. Rubino was a Senior Partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York and was with the firm for more than 25 years.

Mr. Rubino has decades of business, financial, nonprofit and legal experience and expertise in the private, public, and quasi-public sectors, as well as in philanthropy and the nonprofits sectors. He specializes in: business development, organization and management; nonprofit and charitable foundation leadership; health care, social and educational services; corporate and nonprofit governance and regulatory compliance; infrastructure development; public-private partnerships, complex business transactions; finance and securities; sovereign governmental advisory services.

Over the last thirty years, Mr. Rubino has advised a variety of public and private organizations, including the State of Rhode Island; Federal Republic of Nigeria; Cablevision and Madison Square Garden; QVC; HSN; Philadelphia Stock Exchange; Comcast; J. Crew; PepsiCo; Thomson International; United Health; Kenneth Cole; and numerous Wall Street investment banks and private equity firms.

Mr. Rubino served as a member of the Board of Directors (and Audit Committee) of Emblem Health / GHI (one of the largest health insurance corporations, with revenues of over $12 billion) for more than 10 years. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cabrini Mission Foundation (a global nonprofit organization consisting of medical centers, educational institutions and elder and hospice care facilities) for 15 years. Mr. Rubino served on the Board of Trustees of the World Energy Forum (a United Nations affiliated organization focusing on sustainable energy development) and the New York Institute of Energy and Water. He also served as Board Member of the Fordham Center for Nonprofit Leaders (a graduate program sponsored by Fordham University Graduate Schools of Social Service and Business Administration, integrating social justice, business and management education). He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuro Research, Changing The World, Inc. and as the first Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Finance Committee of Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan. Mr. Rubino serves as Board Member of the Connecticut Retail Merchants Association, St Martin Academy (New Haven, CT), Town Fair Tire Foundation, the Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation, and is a member of the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy.

Mr. Rubino has received the United Hospital Fund’s Distinguished Trustee Award, bestowed annually to trustees of boards of hospitals in the New York metropolitan area for extraordinary service and leadership. Mr. Rubino is a frequent lecturer at various legal and business conferences and has Chaired PLI’s Annual Review of Corporate and Securities Law in New York City. Mr. Rubino is admitted to the Bar of New York State. Mr. Rubino received a J.D. from St. John’s University Law School where he was Editor-in-Chief of the St. John’s Law Review, Editor-in-Chief of the Catholic Lawyer, as well as a St. Thomas More Scholar.