David is the Head of Growth and Development for Shockproof!, leading all new product and marketing initiatives.
He began his career in finance as a research analyst at Volpe Brown Whelan where he covered software and professional service firms, and covered these sectors when he subsequently worked at Prudential Securities and Credit Suisse.
After leaving the banking world in 2001, he ran a global investment fund that generated an average 16.5% net annual return over a 5-year period.
In 2007 he founded RepairPal, the leading consumer source of price discovery for automotive repair services, and received a US patent for the algorithm underlying this technology.
More recently he’s started and worked with an array of companies in the commercial lighting, automotive software and services industries.
He holds a BA in Economic Geography from UC Berkeley, a MS in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University, where he completed most of his PhD in Political Economics.