Audiences

David has presented to over 4,000 investors, executives, and entrepreneurs to strong reviews. Among his past audiences:

Institutional Investors

• Birch Hill Equity Partners (C$2b fund), Toronto, Canada
• CEO Trust (sponsored by Castle Harlan), New York, NY.
• Franklin Templeton, San Mateo, CA.
• LLR Partners ($1.4b fund), Philadelphia, PA
• and other leading investment banks, private equity funds, and hedge funds

Investor Conferences

• Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors, Winter Conference, Orlando, FL (twice)
• Association for Corporate Growth New Jersey, Due Diligence Symposium, Jersey City, NJ.
• Association for Corporate Growth Chicago, Capital Connection, Chicago, IL.
• Association for Corporate Growth, InterGrowth national conference, Las Vegas, NV.
• Canadian Hedge Watch, “World Hedge Funds Summit”, Toronto, Canada.
• Family Office Association, Greenwich, CT.
• Institute for International Research, “Private Equity Operations Summit”, New York, NY.
• IRC Alternative Investment Summit, London, UK.
• Kirkland & Ellis, Private Equity Summit, New York, NY.
• Southern States Alternative Investing Symposium, Birmingham, AL
• Terrapinn Private Equity World Latin America, Miami, FL
• Tiburon CEO Summit, New York, NY
• Women’s Association for Venture & Equity, New York, NY

Entrepreneur and Executive Conferences

• Founder Institute, New York, NY (five times); Singapore (twice). One of the top-rated mentors.
• InfoWorld, “Social Media: Overhyped or Under-executed? Strategies for Success”, New York, NY.
• International Radio & Television Society, “Marketing and Media Opportunities in Social Networking and Online Communities”, New York, NY.
• International Radio & Television Society, Seminar for visiting faculty, New York, NY.
• MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Keynote Panel, “Social Networks and Productivity”, Cambridge, MA.
• New York Society of Security Analysts, ”Practical Guide to Starting a Firm”, New York, NY.
• New York Society of Security Analysts, ”The State of Independent Research”, New York, NY.
• New York Software Industry Association, ”The Great Sales & Marketing Debate: The Cagy Sales Veterans Debate the Young Up-and-Comers”, New York, NY.
• Software Information Industry Association, ”Content is Dead, Community is King? The Promises and Risks of Social Networking in the Information Industry”, New York, NY.
• Strategic Research Institute, Chairman, “Beyond Blogs and Social Networks: How Consumer Generated Media and the Virtual Handshake will Transform Business”, New York, NY.
• Thomson Reuters/Buyouts Magazine/VCJ, “Boosting Returns with Web 2.0 Technologies” Webinar.
• The Deal/Corporate Dealmaker, “Due Diligence Best Practices” Webinar.
• Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association, Singapore
• TiECON East, Boston, MA (twice).
• OCE Discovery Conference, Toronto, Canada.
• Vistage, world’s largest CEO membership organization (twice). New York, NY / Chicago, IL.

Universities

• Columbia Business School, MBA and Executive MBA programs, New York, NY.
• University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business, (jointly with Columbia), New York, NY.
• Harvard Business School Alumni Angels, Webinar and Stamford, CT
• Harvard Graduate Student Council/ Harvard GSAS Business Club, Cambridge, MA
• Levin Institute (SUNY), New York, NY (Faculty Fellow).
• National University of Singapore Techno Venture Forum, New York, NY.
• New York University (twice), New York, NY.
• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
• Technion Israel Institute of Technology MBA Program, Haifa, Israel.
• The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA.
• Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT.
• Yale Club of New York ”Thought Leaders in Business” series, New York, NY

Nonprofits

• Aspen Institute Partners for a New Beginning, New York, NY
• CFA Institute, New York, NY.
• CFA Singapore, Singapore.
• CFA Society of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
• Participants in the Kauffman Fellows program (Center for Venture Education), Menlo Park, CA.
• Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association , Singapore.
• The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, New York, NY.
• TIE-The Indus Entrepreneurs, New York, NY / Boston, MA (three times).
• Womensphere (twice), New York, NY