David is a Partner with ff Venture Capital, Chairman of Harvard Business School Angels New York, and Founder and Chairman of Navon Partners, which has built a proprietary data and analytics platform to obtain data about private companies via web scraping and other means. He was formerly Acting CEO of Vertical Key, a web-based software service for managing large-scale events. Previously he was a Managing Director with Evalueserve, a 2,500-person global research and analytics company. David was previously Founder and CEO of Circle of Experts, an investment research firm acquired by Evalueserve, and later sold to Advantus Global.

David was formerly Founder and CEO of GoldNames, an Israel-based investment bank focusing on the internet domain name asset class. He worked with Bear Stearns’ Investment Banking division in their technology/defense mergers and acquisitions team, and was a strategy consultant with Mars & Co. David holds a Harvard MBA and a Yale BA, both with honors. While still in college, he built a technology consulting firm with 35 clients.

He’s a Mentor with Founder Institute (New York and Singapore), Dreamit Ventures, and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator. David is a frequent keynote speaker at investor and technology conferences.