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Daniel A. Kraft is an American businessman. He is a son of Robert Kraft, and is president of the family-owned Kraft Group.

Key Information

A former collegiate lacrosse player, Kraft has been involved in promoting the sport in Israel.

Early life

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Kraft is one of four sons born to Jewish American parents Robert Kraft and Myra Kraft (née Hiatt). His father is a billionaire businessman.[1][2]

Kraft received a bachelor's degree from Tufts University in 1987.[3][4] While at Tufts, Kraft played lacrosse for the Tufts Jumbos.[5]

Kraft is married to Wendy Kraft.[6]

Career

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After graduating from Tufts, Kraft worked at TeleRep.[3][better source needed]

In 1994, Kraft began working for his family's Kraft Sports Group as vice president of marketing.[3] Kraft currently serves as the president of his family's Kraft Group.[7][1] Since 1997, he has been president and executive of the Kraft Group's paper products subsidiary International Forest Products LLC.[8][9] Kraft is a member of the American Forest & Paper Association's executive board, joining in 2022.[10]

Kraft is on the board of directors for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.[9] He previously was a trustee of Tufts University.[4][11] He was a founding board member of Team IMPACT.[3][better source needed]

In 2023, Boston magazine ranked Kraft and his brothers Jonathan and Josh at number 11 on its list of the "most influential Bostonians", grouping the three brothers as a single entity.[9]

Israeli lacrosse

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Since 2012, Kraft has been involved in promoting the sport of lacrosse in Israel.[5] Kraft was the board chair of the Israeli Lacrosse sports body. His son, Joey, has played on the Israel men's national lacrosse team,[12] as well as for the Tufts Jumbos collegiate lacrosse team.[13]

The Israeli national lacrosse center in Ashkelon is named the "Daniel Kraft Family National Lacrosse Center",[14] and opened in 2019.[15] The Daniel and Wendy Kraft Lacrosse Scholarship has provided funding for Israeli youth lacrosse players to travel to the US and participate in lacrosse clinics and tournaments.[16]

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Daniel Kraft

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Daniel Kraft is an American physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator known for his pioneering work at the intersection of regenerative medicine, stem cell technologies, and digital health. Trained at Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, he is board-certified in internal medicine and pediatrics, with fellowships in hematology/oncology and bone marrow transplantation. He invented the MarrowMiner, an FDA-cleared medical device that enables minimally invasive bone marrow harvesting, and has founded multiple companies focused on advancing stem cell-based therapies, precision medicine, and health technology. Kraft formerly served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University, where he led efforts to explore convergent technologies in biomedicine starting in 2008, and he founded Exponential Medicine, a program dedicated to emerging innovations in healthcare. He chairs the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance and is managing partner at Continuum Health Ventures, investing in early-stage health tech companies. His research and clinical work have centered on stem cell biology, regenerative therapies, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for malignant and non-malignant diseases, with publications in journals including Nature and Science, as well as multiple patents in medical devices and immunology. With over 25 years of experience bridging clinical practice, biomedical research, and healthcare innovation, Kraft has delivered multiple TED and TEDMED talks and is recognized as a leading voice on the future of medicine, including through roles as an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow and advisor to digital health initiatives. His efforts emphasize democratizing health access, improving healthspan through exponential technologies, and advancing personalized, data-driven approaches to care.

Early life

Education and early influences

Daniel Kraft earned an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Brown University. While at Brown, he pursued his longstanding interest in aviation by joining the university's flying club, earning his pilot's license during his freshman year, and later serving as club president. He also spent a summer at NASA's Kennedy Space Center researching the intersections of biology, medicine, and space exploration, including life support systems and countermeasures. Kraft received his M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine. He took advantage of the school's pass/fail curriculum to enroll in aerospace engineering courses as the only non-engineer, contributing to a detailed plan for a human mission to Mars. He then completed a combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital through a Harvard-affiliated program, becoming board-certified in both specialties. Following residency, he undertook fellowships in hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford. Kraft's early interest in science was shaped by a high school internship at the National Institutes of Health, where he assisted in developing early monoclonal antibodies to study the IgE receptor involved in allergic responses. He conducted a related science fair project demonstrating allergy reversal in rat models using this approach, work that years later drew interest from Genentech during a patent dispute over the drug Xolair, which employs a similar mechanism. His childhood fascination with space and aviation, beginning around age four or five after witnessing the Apollo 17 night launch and making frequent visits to the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, continued to influence his educational pursuits, leading him to integrate aerospace medicine themes throughout his training. During residency, he joined the Massachusetts Air National Guard as a flight surgeon, completing aerospace medicine training at Brooks Air Force Base.

Career

Daniel Kraft is a physician-scientist and innovator whose primary career has focused on regenerative medicine, stem cell technologies, health tech entrepreneurship, and leadership in exponential medicine, as detailed in the lead section. He has also engaged in public dissemination of these ideas through media appearances and ongoing initiatives.

Media appearances

Daniel Kraft has appeared as an expert commentator on topics related to medicine, innovation, and exponential technologies. His earliest documented media credit dates to 2013, when he appeared as himself in the television series Futurescape with James Woods, specifically in the episode "Cheating Time," credited as Executive Director of FutureMed. This appearance stemmed from his professional background in medicine and leadership at Singularity University's FutureMed program (later Exponential Medicine), positioning him as a subject-matter expert.

Key credits and contributions

Daniel Kraft has appeared as an expert commentator and interviewee in several television programs and documentaries focused on the future of medicine, health innovation, and exponential technologies. Among his notable contributions is his appearance as Self - Executive Director, Futuremed in the 2013 television series Futurescape with James Woods, where he discussed advancements in medical technology. Kraft also featured prominently in the Singularity University Global Innovation Series, appearing in 11 episodes to explore convergent technologies and their impact on healthcare. In 2016, he was interviewed as Self in the production The University. In 2018, Kraft served as executive producer for one episode of the television series Quantum Earth. That same year, he was credited as Self - Physician-Scientist in the film 2030. These media credits reflect Kraft's efforts to disseminate knowledge on cutting-edge health and science topics to wider audiences through documentary-style and educational programming.

Recent work and current status

Daniel Kraft remains an active leader in health innovation and technology convergence, currently serving as Chair of NextMed Health, an interdisciplinary platform and annual gathering that evolved from his earlier Exponential Medicine program to accelerate human-centric advancements in healthcare through exponential technologies. He founded and chairs NextMed Health, which convenes over 600 innovators across technology and medicine for cross-disciplinary collaboration on topics including precision wellness, next-generation diagnostics, and global health. The most recent NextMed Health event took place March 30–April 2, 2025, in San Diego, featuring over 70 faculty members and participants from more than 40 countries. Kraft also founded Digital.Health, a community hub for discovering digital health tools, solutions, and resources, and continues to chair the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance, building on his prior leadership in initiatives such as the Rapid COVID Testing XPRIZE. His ongoing work emphasizes the integration of artificial intelligence, wearables, genomics, and other emerging technologies to shift healthcare toward proactive, personalized, and preventative models. He maintains a regular presence through public engagement, including a weekly newsletter curating developments in health and biomedicine, the Healthy Conversations Podcast featuring expert interviews on innovation, and frequent keynotes. Recent speaking appearances include DLD 2025 in Munich, addressing the future of AI and digitally enabled health. In 2025 interviews, Kraft has highlighted AI's role in enabling personalized digital twins, agentic health interfaces, and broader access to care via smartphones and low-cost devices.

Personal life

Family and relationships

Daniel Kraft is married and has a family. Limited public information is available about his personal relationships or children, as Kraft generally focuses his public commentary and profiles on his professional contributions to medicine, innovation, and health technology rather than private matters.

Interests and activities outside entertainment

Daniel Kraft has cultivated a longstanding passion for aviation and space exploration, which developed during his childhood near Washington, DC. He attended the Apollo 17 launch as a young child and frequently visited the National Air and Space Museum, fostering an early interest in these fields. While an undergraduate at Brown University, Kraft earned his private pilot's license and served as president of the Brown University Flying Club. He later participated in NASA's Space Life Sciences Training Program at Kennedy Space Center, conducted aerospace medicine research at NASA-Ames Research Center, and completed a clerkship at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Kraft is an avid pilot who served more than 12 years as a flight surgeon in the Massachusetts and California Air National Guard, flying with F-15 and F-16 fighter squadrons, including deployments to Saudi Arabia, Nicaragua, and Hawaii. He accumulated over 100 hours in these aircraft and was a finalist for NASA astronaut selection.
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