Despite being urged as a youth to get a “real career to fall back on,” Daniel Liston Keller has spent most of his adult life in the world of music and professional audio. His pinball career path has included performing, songwriting, engineering, production, studio tech, publishing, and label ownership, as well as product design and management, business consulting, artist relations, and marketing. As founder and CEO of marketing consulting firm Get It In Writing he spent 25 years leading brand strategies for pro audio's biggest companies.
He's currently an independent consultant and an adjunct professor of audio production at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He also serves as Executive Chair of the Audio Engineering Society Los Angeles, works closely with several non-profits including the MIDI Association, SoundGirls, and Women’s Audio Mission, and is co-founder of the Artist Brain Collective, advocating to normalize neurodiversity in the arts and education. A prolific writer, public speaker, and videographer, he has presented and moderated scores of panels and events at gatherings including NAMM, AES, and SXSW, and has hosted more than 200 episodes of the popular YouTube series "Insights In Sound."