Dave is responsible for the company’s corporate marketing efforts. He served as Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Pluck prior to its acquisition by Demand Media in early 2008.

Dave is a software industry veteran with 20 years of start-up experience and has helped define new markets across a range of Internet and enterprise sectors. He co-founded Pluck as a Venture Partner at Austin Ventures. He was also a co-founder and executive vice president of collaboration tools provider Question Technologies (sold to Motive).

For seven years, Dave was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at web-collaboration pioneer DataBeam before their successful sale to Lotus/IBM. Previously, he ran product management at Easel Corporation, a popular software development tool company that went public.

Dave earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and his undergraduate degree from Furman University.

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