Born in Virginia, raised in 3 countries, 4 states and a commonwealth, Daniel Sheppard knows a thing or two about writing bios in the third person. He has won countless participation awards for his elementary and middle school sports programs and was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2006.

He has an agency background where he spent many nights increasing logo sizes and trying to figure out how they get all those cinnamon swirls into every bite of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Legend has it, he once showed up to work naked with nothing but his normal clothes on.

Daniel got into commercial directing when he met a drunk guy that said, “Hey, man. You should direct.” He’ll never forget that day.