Drăgan was born Daniela Veronica Gușă as the daughter of Ștefan Gușă, a Romanian Army General involved in the 1989 Romanian Revolution who died of cancer in 1994.
[2] At the time of their wedding in 1995, the groom was 78 and the bride, a recent university graduate, was 22.
[4] According to Forbes Romania ranking from 2010, she had an estimated fortune of about 900 million euros.
One year after her husband's death, Drăgan decided to move the entire family business to a new structure, called Veroniki Holding SpA.
[4] Thus, in addition to ButanGas (industrial group with activities in Italy, Albania, Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, and Romania and a turnover of ButanGas Romania estimated at about 70 million euros), the group is now part of Romconstruct Top, a company acquired for the development of a wind farm in Siliștea, Constanța County.