Daniel Rootenberg
Chief Financial Officer, Agent16
Biographical Info:
During the past 20 years, Daniel has helped a variety of entrepreneurial businesses grow from start-up to maturity. In his first role outside public accounting, he took Broadcasting Partners public on the NASDAQ as Corporate Controller and was involved in the successful sale of the company to Evergreen Media for $120 million in 1995. As CFO of WeightWatchers.com and its sixth employee, he helped the company grow from a start up through to its sale in 2005 to Weight Watchers International for over $600 million. At the time of the sale, the company’s annual revenues exceeded $120 million.
Daniel has a B. Acc. from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and is both a Chartered Accountant (S.A) and Certified Public Accountant (U.S.A.). In his spare time, he collects and deals in tribal art, with a specialty in 19th century art from southern Africa. He lives in New York with his wife, daughter and Luca, an unusually timid English Cream long-haired dachshund.
