Daniel Battaglia is an Australian-Italian author who grew up in south Sydney and attended a Catholic School in the area. Moving on to the University of Wollongong, where he obtained degrees in Commerce and Arts. Following his education and inspired by his youth where he spent a year living in Italy, Daniel took the opportunity to travel further around the world, visiting around 30 countries as he explored different cultures and experienced the unending variety that they have to offer. He then went on to a career in banking and finance but found that he was never truly comfortable with the rigidity and formality of the environment. Always someone more interested in people and communities, he left the banking industry to launch Parking Made Easy in 2012 and has never looked back. A business built around helping people solve parking needs by connecting those looking for parking with people who have spare parking spaces, it has become a huge, friendly community that has helped its members save time and money and find better solutions for parking today. In tandem with the growth of his business, Daniel has continued to be an advocate for parking, not just helping people through Parking Made Easy, but offering advice in challenging parking fines, which like the cost of parking itself, have spiralled in recent years.