Daniel Waithaka Mwangi served as the previous governor of Nyandarua County in central Kenya from 2013 to 2017.
Daniel Waithaka owns Elite School in Nyahururu and he a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Nairobi as well as CPS and CPA certificates.
He also worked as the Chief Accountant at Longman (K) Ltd (now Longhorn Publishers) and as an accountant in charge of the tea factories at the Kenya Tea Development Authority (now Agency).
Daniel Waithaka first got involved in electoral politics in 2007 when he ran for the Mazingira Greens Party nomination for the Ol Kalou parliamentary seat.
In 2012, he entered politics once more and won the Nyandarua governor's race for the Jubilee coalition party TNA.