For Danny’s family, I’m so incredibly sorry for your unimaginable loss. I feel lucky to have been able to have been able to work with Danny for two years in the Global Funds Department. No one I’ve worked with since has met the bar Danny set, and I expect they never will. Danny had the most wonderful way of building people up and truly bringing the very best out of everyone he met, however demanding the circumstances. In our team he inspried a generation of colleagues to never settle for anything but the best and biggest impact we could have. Since he left Global Funds we have frequently used the phrase ‘be more Danny’ to reignite the drive for good he sparked in us. That spark will live on.
Among my favourite Danny memories was a virtual Global Funds all staff mid-pandemic which he joined from the garden of his house in Geneva and which he admitted at the end he had been throwing the ball for the dogs throughout. We’d never of known if he hadn’t said because of course he hadn’t dropped a single figurative ball but it makes me smile even now to think that even the dogs got the very best of him.