Daniel Schwartz

Associate Partner

Daniel is an Associate Partner with Prophet's Innovation Practice and is based in New York. At Prophet, Daniel’s focus is in identifying new growth opportunities for his clients and making strategy tangible through the creation of breakthrough products, services and experiences. He excels in "turning the corner" from strategy to concept development, ensuring that the ultimate creative output reflects consumer, technology, brand and business points-of-view.

Daniel's background spans the "down and dirty" of detailed product engineering to the "fuzzy front end" of innovation strategy and platform development. With over 13 years of innovation experience, at IDEO, the Arnell Group and Redscout, Daniel has worked across diverse industries, helping to answer the question "what's next?" for clients such as IAMS, Dell, Becton Dickinson, Kellogg's, Johnson & Johnson, hp, Hyatt and Pepsico.

Daniel possesses of wide command of innovation process, from insight to implementation, from need-finding to design for manufacturability. He has led a host of innovation workshops, professionally and academically, and has served as mentor for innovation teams at Harvard Business School. He was Lead Engineer on the BriteSmile 3000PB, an ID Magazine Design Distinction award-winner.

Daniel holds a B.A. in Physics from Dartmouth College and a B.S. in Product Design from Stanford.