Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Daniel Skaff is the president and co-chief executive officer of [Beneficial State Bank](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/beneficial-state-bank#/entity), an FDIC-insured community development financial institution that serves businesses, non-profits, and individuals. He is also a co-founder and general partner at Eagle Cliff Partners.

In addition to his responsibilities at Beneficial State and Eagle Cliff, Skaff serves as a trustee of the Latino Community Foundation and on the board of the Bay Area Council. He is past chairman of the investment committee at the Marin Community Foundation and a senior advisor to Fairview Capital’s Darlington Partners public equities fund.

Prior to Beneficial State Bank, Skaff was a managing partner of Sienna Ventures, a growth capital firm investing in emerging consumer, retail, mobile communications, and financial services companies. While at Sienna, he sponsored ten businesses that grew from early stage to publicly traded companies, including Glu Mobile, Openwave Systems, Tradepoint Solutions, Motricity, Protocol Communications, and Bojangles’ Restaurants.

Earlier in his career Skaff served as executive chairman of Pon North America, the U.S. operating affiliate of Pon Holdings B.V. of the Netherlands, and in the Corporate Finance Departments of Bankers Trust Company and Bank of America. He is a past member of the Harvard College Fund Council and co-chairman of Glu Mobile.

Skaff holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from Harvard University, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Wharton Fellow and serves as a guest speaker in Wharton’s Leadership in the Business World Program.