Daniel Selby

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Emerging leader Daniel Selby, in brief.

Daniel Selby

Home: Manhasset, NY.  Age: 22.  Birthplace: Manhasset, NY.  Profession: Underwriter.  Alma mater: New York University (NYU).

Current project: Underwriting lucrative business opportunities at a leading private credit firm. Recent recognition: University Honors Scholar and recipient of NYU’s Founder’s Day Award. Recent professional development: full-time underwriting role evaluating financial health and growth potential across various sectors.  Latest accomplishment: Graduated from NYU with distinction and a 4.0 GPA.  Recent unique inititative:  Founded Pizza Club at NYU, an inclusive community for students to connect over the great pizza in NYC.    Recent unique acquisition: Crypto investments with a long-term growth outlook.  Hobbies: Golf.

Personality profile: Resilient, thoughtful, ambitious.  Moral compass: Trustworthy.  How do you define an ideal business relationship? Mutually beneficial.  What is your greatest joy? Achieving goals that seem impossible.  What is your greatest fear? Wasting my potential.  What is at the top of your bucket list? Visiting all thirty MLB stadiums (I’m at nineteen so far).  How do you relieve stress? Playing a round of golf.

What was your first paying job? Baseball coach.  What was your favorite college course? International Economics.  What was your favorite childhood toy or game? LEGOs.  What’s the best advice you received growing up? Never give up on yourself.  What is your go-to source of news and information? Wall Street Journal.

What message do you want to send out into the world?

Things don’t happen to you; they happen for you.

What mega-trend most excites you? The rise of AI and energy innovation.  What mega-trend most concerns you? The proliferation of misinformation online.

What title would you choose for the movie about your life? Resilience.  Who would you like to spend an evening with, in heaven? The three grandparents I never met.  What period in your life would you do differently, if you could? Re-do my senior year of high school without a global pandemic complicating it.

Personal mission: To constantly improve myself.  Personal motto: Things don’t happen to you; they happen for you.  Favorite quote: “Today I will do what others won’t so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t” (Jerry Rice).

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