Summary
Daniel Frank is a US- and Canadian-licensed Product and Corporate Counsel based in New York with a decade of experience at the intersection of law, product, and security. He has guided startups and scale-ups through GDPR, privacy, AI policy and SOC 2 compliance while partnering closely with engineering teams to shape product-safe legal frameworks. A former litigation associate who also founded and tested two startups, he combines courtroom rigor with hands-on entrepreneurial grit. Daniel is a founding board member of Giving What We Can Canada and has steered charity registration and compliance strategy there, reflecting a practical commitment to effective altruism. He’s an active thinker and writer on public-policy and social topics and brings a rare blend of cross-border legal expertise, product-minded technical interest (notably in C#/.NET and Blazor), and global perspective shaped by travel to 80+ countries.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Arts in Public Policy, Masters of Arts in Public Policy at Tel Aviv University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science and Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science and Philosophy at Western University
Doctor of Law (J.D.) Law, Doctor of Law (J.D.) Law at Queen's University