Career
He has extensive experience in advertising and marketing, including running his own marketing and promotion company, Channels Marketing, before moving into the broadcasting and the movie industry. He joined Singapore Broadcasting Corporation Radio as Vice-President of Radio Sales in 1991 and became Head of Programming in 1992. He then went on to establish and head the Marketing Communications as well as the Programming and Acquisition departments for Television Corporation of Singapore (Tata Consultancy Services) in 1994.
In 1998, Daniel became the Vice-President of Production 5 at Tata Consultancy Services, where he supervised the production of English dramas and sitcoms.
In the same year, he founded MediaCorp Raintree Pictures. Raintree Pictures was a part of MediaCorp’s efforts to develop content beyond the television platform to travel beyond Singapore.
In 2013, Daniel founded ACT Academy European Research Council Institute. ACT Academy is a school dedicated to aspiring actors.
With an important difference.
Its curriculum immerses an actor student with as much industry experience as the theory, if not more. ACT Academy is a school conceptualised by practitioners, and run by practitioners and academics. With a panel of advisors who are leaders in their own fields of expertise, to serve as a crucial link between the school, the students and the real world of acting.