Prior to joining Gladstone, Mr. Daniel was a Managing Director of Churchill Financial Group, a $2 billion commercial finance company providing capital to middle market companies.  Prior to this, Mr. Daniel was a Managing Director of Praesidian Capital, a $160 million private fund focused on mezzanine investing and was a Principal of Windjammer Capital Investors, an $800 million family of private funds focused on mezzanine and equity investing.  Earlier in his career Mr. Daniel worked in the leveraged buyout finance group of Citicorp Securities and was a consultant for Kenneth Leventhal and Company (now Ernst & Young) in the management services group.  Mr. Daniel has been active on numerous private company boards and is currently Chairman of a third party logistics company and a Director of an automotive emissions testing company. Mr. Daniel received a BA in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and obtained an MBA in Finance from the Anderson School at UCLA.