Daniel Goldman

Daniel leads legal and strategic initiatives for Syntax and advises on partnerships, joint ventures, corporate development, licensing, and intellectual property. He has served as general counsel to a venture capital firm and a registered investment advisor. He previously worked as counsel to a multi-strategy fund; in business development for IIX, a financing platform backed by the Asian Development Bank and the Rockefeller Foundation; and for the World Bank on corporate governance matters. Prior to that, he worked in portfolio development for Balfour Venture Partners, a venture capital firm, and in securities regulation for the New York Stock Exchange. Daniel holds a B.A. from Columbia, where he was a John Jay National Scholar; a J.D. from Georgetown; and an M.B.A. from Yale, where he was a winner of the Yale Law and Business Society Entrepreneurship Challenge. He has presented research on data analytics at the University of Cambridge, South by Southwest, and the World Bank. He holds nine U.S. patents in financial technology and data analytics, and is the author of a book chapter on economic and technology policy in the Middle East. He serves on the boards of a Latin American financial technology startup, an African startup accelerator, and an alumni nonprofit group. He is a member of the New York State Bar and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and serves on the Bretton Woods Committee.