Daniel A. "Dan" Kraft is an American businessman. He is a son of

Robert Kraft Robert Kenneth Kraft (born June 5, 1941) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Kraft Group, a diversified holding company with assets in paper and packaging, sports and entertainmen ...

, and is president of the family-owned

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. A former collegiate

lacrosse Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game w ...

player, Kraft has been involved in promoting the sport in Israel.

Early life

Kraft is one of four sons born to

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parents

and

Myra Kraft Myra Hiatt Kraft (''née'' Myra Nathalie Hiatt; December 27, 1942 – July 20, 2011) was an American philanthropist and the wife of New England Patriots and New England Revolution owner Robert Kraft. Early life and education Kraft was born in W ...

(). His father is a

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businessman. Kraft received a bachelor's degree from

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. Tufts also has several Doctor of Physical Therapy p ...

in 1987. While at Tufts, Kraft played

for the

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. Kraft is married to Wendy Kraft.

Career

After graduating from Tufts, Kraft worked at TeleRep. In 1994, Kraft began working for his family's Kraft Sports Group as vice president of marketing. Kraft currently serves as the president of his family's

. Since 1997, he has been president and executive of the

's paper products subsidiary International Forest Products LLC. Kraft is a member of the

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's executive board, joining in 2022. Kraft is on the board of directors for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He previously was a trustee of Tufts University. He was a founding board member of Team IMPACT. In 2023, ''Boston'' magazine ranked Kraft and his brothers

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and

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at number 11 on its list of the "most influential Bostonians", grouping the three brothers as a single entity.

Israeli lacrosse

Since 2012, Kraft has been involved in promoting the sport of lacrosse in

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. Kraft was the board chair of the Israeli Lacrosse sports body. His son, Joey, has played on the

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, as well as for the Tufts Jumbos collegiate lacrosse team. The Israeli national lacrosse center in

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is named the "Daniel Kraft Family National Lacrosse Center", and opened in 2019. 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.

References

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