Otunba Gbenga Daniel began his professional career as a lecturer in the School of Engineering at the Lagos State Polytechnic during his National Youth Service year.

He then proceeded to the Metal Construction (W/Africa) Limited which he left as the Assistant Commercial Manager.

In 1983, he joined the then multinational company, H.F.SCHROEDER West Africa Limited, Lagos.

He rose to the position of Deputy managing director at Schroeder, becoming the first African to hold such a position in the company’s history.

In 1990, he left Schroeder to start Kresta Laurel, an engineering firm specializing in elevators, overhead travelling cranes and hoists.

In 2017, he started KLL Construction Limited, to present a new kind of Construction Company that will stand the test of time. He is also the chairman, Conference Hotels.

In 2016, he was elected president of, Nigerian-Finnish Business Council to succeed Ambassador Olusegun Olusola who died in 2012. The Nigerian-Finnish Business Council was established to foster business relations between Nigerian companies and their counterparts in Finland with the goal of encouraging trade and investment.

Daniel is a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE), a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering (FNAEng) and Fellow of the Institute of Directors (FIoD)