Daniel León

FAMILY OFFICE EXECUTIVE, ENTREPRENEUR, MUSIC PRODUCER, PHILANTHROPIST

Born and raised in Peru, Daniel León is part of the fifth generation of the Romero family, one of Latin America’s leading business families in banking and agri-business. A lifelong music enthusiast committed to the power of music and art as tools for education, healing, and communication, he began his career in Lima as a music producer. There his aim was to develop the unique sound of Peruvian music, which he eventually exported to the U.S. After living several years in Barcelona to study music production, León moved his family to Miami, where he assumed a leadership role in managing his family’s investment portfolio and expanding its involvement in community philanthropy. Through a planning process known as Finding Your Philanthropic North Star, he identified causes that would become the foundation of his family’s charitable mission. In Coral Gables he founded the Acacia Charitable Fund, a philanthropic initiative housed at the Coral Gables Community Foundation, focused on four interconnected pillars: mental health, the arts, spirituality, and support for vulnerable communities. 

THE LATEST 

Through Acacia, León supports programs that include Barry University’s Health, Arts and Spirituality Initiative, the Acacia Healing Arts & Spirituality Summit, and the Gulliver Global Fellows service-learning program. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Guitars Over Guns, a nonprofit that connects youth facing adversity with mentors through music and the arts. After moving the Grupo Romero family office to Coral Gables, León earned a Kellogg Executive MBA at the Northwestern University branch in the Gables. He also serves as Chairman of the Family Office Society LATAM, a network that brings together family offices, entrepreneurs, and wealth creators from across Latin America and the U.S. 

WHAT HE SAYS 

“I first landed Miami thinking how I could evolve as a professional, to be in the music business game,” León says. “Then I realized that I was already working in the finance world, overseeing the family portfolio being managed in Peru.” Seeing the need to be more involved in the family business, and to expand its charitable mission, León earned a Kellogg Executive MBA. “I saw that this was the perfect moment for me to switch from music to finance, and to open the single-family office. It was kind of like synchronicity.” With the power of the family office behind him, Leon connected his love of music with philanthropy. “As a musician, I developed a way of dealing with my own problems in life through music,” he says. “[The Barry project] uses music and the arts to enhance the healthcare experience; what we’re going to do is bring to students [the idea of] music as therapy.”