Daniel Fong
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Biography
Daniel Fong was born and raised in Hong Kong, where he attended Diocesan Boys’ School, one of the top schools there. When he turned sixteen, he left Hong Kong to attend Worcester Academy, a boarding prep school in Massachusetts. He graduated valedictorian and was accepted to Harvard, where he took sophomore standing, having passed the requisite AP exams in high school. Thirty-seven years after graduating from Harvard, Daniel embarked on a Master of Arts in Theology degree at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, achieving it five years later in 2021. At the end of 2024, Daniel started his PhD program at Fuller.
Daniel worked first in Hong Kong for four years at one of the foremost denim fabrics manufacturing company that was owned by his father. Then he joined Li & Fung Trading Limited, a large multi-faceted global company. His work there included starting a private equity fund in San Francisco as well as creating the largest toy distribution network in Asia. When he was twenty-nine, he became the youngest Grade 1 director in their history.
In 1989, because of unsettling political events in Beijing, Daniel uprooted his young family and moved to Los Angeles. Shortly after, he bought a small baby furniture wholesaler, Million Dollar Baby, which has grown to become one of the premier companies in the industry. For the last ten years, he has been known there as Teacher/MythBuster. Additionally, Daniel is an investor/adviser at Alabaster Creative Inc., which sells beautiful Bible books, and is the founder of Uncommon Voices Collective, a nonprofit that lately has been focusing on Christian horror. It produced the Christian horror short film, Refuse; published the first Christian devotional based on eight horror stories from the Bible; co-created the podcast Be Afraid with Christianity Today and Fuller Theological Seminary; convened an in-person conference called FearMakers in 2023. He also sits on various boards and is particularly interested in helping needy students from Hong Kong to go to US universities as well as finding solutions to help the unhoused population in Los Angeles.
Daniel has been married to his wife, Maryann, for forty-three years. He has a daughter, a son, and four grandchildren whom he adores.