Daniel Wolf

Daniel H. Wolf, Esq. and Ph.D. (abd)

Daniel Wolf has wide-ranging aptitudes and interests. An attorney with a J.D. from Harvard Law School (1986), he became a political scientist (University of California, San Diego 1993), was a Fulbright scholar in Nicaragua and El Salvador (1990), a Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Fellow in India (1982), and practiced architecture in Portland, Oregon in the 1970s.

An entrepreneur, Mr. Wolf was the founding director of the TransBorder Institute at the University of San Diego, invented a technology for clearing antipersonnel landmines and built a nonprofit organization and an investor-owned technology company around it, and founded another technology company that developed an unmanned ground vehicle for use against IEDs. He is presently CEO and Chief Legal Counsel of Global 8 Environmental Technologies, a public investment holding company in which he is responsible for analysis, strategy, operations, due diligence and SEC reporting.

Appointed to Board of Global 8 in 2009, he quickly discovered illegal behavior by the founder, organized the Board to eject him, defended the company and the Board members with almost no funds against a well-funded 2-year lawsuit by the founder, and won. Now executing a turnaround strategy, he is building an investment holding company to invest in promising emerging companies, adapting Berkshire-Hathaway's financial model to increase return on invested capital while enhancing alignment between investors, companies and communities.

Mr. Wolf has written well-regarded papers and monographs on elections and democratic institutions in developing countries, changes in institutions and social organizations supporting war, immigration and crime, and market-based public health approaches to humanitarian landmine clearing.