Zero260
David has spent the past twenty-five years starting and growing technology companies. In a variety of founder, director and senior operational roles, David has been involved in over 20 start-ups that have achieved a combined “high water” equity value of over 36 billion dollars including 2 IPOs and 7 company acquisitions.
David currently serves as President and CEO of Z2Live which is bringing multiplayer video gaming to wireless networks. David is also a co-founder and a current Director of Medio Systems, a mobile search and advertising company that is pioneering better access to information, content and consumer transactions from mobile devices.
Prior to Zero260, David was CEO of NextMedium, the first online marketplace for product placement advertising.
Prior to NextMedium, David served as CEO and Chairman of GoTV Networks, the largest made-for-mobile television production studio in North America. Prior to GoTV, David was CEO at WUF Networks, a privately held company that allowed mobile users to access and stream rich media to their mobile phones. WUF helped pioneer mobile music and was acquired in 2004 by Yahoo! to power their Yahoo Music service. In 2000, David co-founded and served as President of (M)Forma (now HandsOn Mobile). While there, HandsOn grew into one of the industry’s leading providers of mobile games and wireless entertainment reaching over 600 million subscribers across 60+ carrier networks in 23 different countries.
Prior to co-founding (M)Forma, David was CEO of NearMe where he guided the development and initial licensing of a suite of location technologies used by AT&T Wireless (TXT 411), SprintPCS and U.S. Cellular to deliver Directory Assistance and other localized information to mobile users. David co-founded 2WAY Corporation in January of 1997. Among other awards, 2WAY received Best Internet Product ’98 by the Washington Software Alliance and was named to both Upside’s Hot 100 List and Red Herring’s Round Up in 1999. The company’s software was inducted into the Smithsonian’s Permanent Research Collection and placed in the National Museum of American History while David and his co-founders were named Smithsonian Laureates.
Between 1994 and 1996, David was a Senior Business Development Manager for Motorola where he helped direct their emerging market strategies including Internet, hand held devices and Interactive TV. David’s high technology leadership posts also include VP Sales at Mosaix International (through a $40 million Initial Public Offering in 1990) and VP Sales and Marketing at Davox Corporation (NASADAQ: DVX) where he co-led a turnaround resulting in an 18X increase in valuation in 30 months.
David’s other start up accomplishments includes developing the business plan and securing the initial funding for Realtor.com (now Move.com, an Internet real estate listings site, NASDAQ: MOVE) as well as co-founding BondHub.com (an Internet bond trading exchange) and WorldVoice (natural language understanding). David also led the sales and marketing efforts at Mammoth Micro Productions, a multimedia studio and streaming company, until the company was sold to the Washington Post in 1993. David started his career with corporate-focused sales positions at Hewlett-Packard.
David has served as a Director at iFLOOR.com, WorldVoice, TeraCloud, Ansyr Technologies (sold to Global Graphics in 2002), Bidpath Corporation, Northwest Venture Group (non-profit), Young Life Ministries and TheGift.com (sold to 1-800-Flowers.com). David received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington in 1983.
