Primary Job Title Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Primary Organization 
DrawBridge Solutions
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Regions Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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David White is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of DrawBridge Solutions LLC. Mr. White is responsible for operational and financial management of the organization as well as the project management of DrawBridge’s client engagements, ensuring the proper integration of the financial, real estate, transactional and risk management aspects of
DBS’s proprietary property assessments. He plays a major role in business development and in strategic planning for the company, identifying and developing various partnerships and alliances to supplement and expand DBS’s comprehensive suite of mission-critical analytics and expertise.
Throughout his career, Mr. White has participated in the strategic, financial and risk assessment of various property divestment options for Fortune 100 clients across the U.S. He has also been responsible for the creation of environmental and financial due diligence platforms for clients specializing in the acquisition and redevelopment of environmentally impacted properties. These redevelopments have included uses such as environmentally friendly workforce housing, multi-family affordable housing and solar power generation. He has provided regular due diligence consulting services for national retailers, affordable housing owner/operators, real estate private equity firms and for industrial and manufacturing focused private equity sponsors.
Over his 28-year career in various sectors of the capital markets, Mr. White has participated in private equity transactions valued at more than $2.5 Billion. He has underwritten, structured and managed investments in industries from real estate and banking to healthcare, logistics, telecommunications and nanotechnology. He has been involved in the startup of several investment and risk management advisory organizations during which time he engineered and commercialized two proprietary financing structures for small public companies, providing more than $125 Million of growth capital. He has led teams performing origination, underwriting, structuring, and management of both real estate and private equity investments and has been responsible for global risk management of an international bank’s multi-billion dollar, multi-currency portfolio of foreign exchange transactions.
Mr. White has been a frequent panelist and speaker on real estate, risk management and environmental issues.
