Daniel Gorfine is the founder of Gattaca Horizons, a boutique fintech advisory firm. Daniel also currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and is a co-founder of the Digital Dollar Project. Daniel is senior policy advisory to the Financial Technology Association (FTA) and the Cloud Service Provider-Advisory Board. He previously served as the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s first Chief Innovation Officer and Director of LabCFTC. Prior to the CFTC, Daniel was Vice President, External Affairs & Associate General Counsel at OnDeck. Daniel also previously served as Director of Financial Markets Policy and Legal Counsel at the Milken Institute think tank, and earlier in his career worked at the international law firm Covington & Burling LLP. Daniel also served a clerkship with U.S. District Court Judge Catherine C. Blake in the District of Maryland. A graduate of Brown University (A.B.), Daniel holds a J.D. from George Washington University Law School and an M.A. from the Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.
