Meet Our CEO

Daniel Bahman Shad

Founder & CEO

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Daniel is an experienced nonprofit & events professional having most recently served on the Senior Leadership Team for the National Center for Transgender Equality as Director of Development. He has a proven track record of fundraising success over the past 15+ year and has been planing events for over 20 years. Throughout his career, Daniel has managed all types of fundraising portfolios from foundations and corporate partnerships to Annual Fund and Planned Giving. However, his true expertise is in producing large scale fundraising events and using those events and other tactics to manage lucrative major gifts portfolios.

Prior to focusing his energy in the realm of fundraising, Daniel worked tirelessly to change policies to be more inclusive for minority communities, advocating on national public education campaigns as well as some local issue-based ballot measures. He is extremely passionate about social justice issues, particularly ones affectingly the LGBTQ community.

Daniel is a graduate of NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service where he received his MPA in Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA, and in addition to working in the Los Angeles Metro Area, he also has experience working with donors and producing events in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, San Fransisco, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, Boston, Nashville, Austin, Denver, and Seattle.