Nashville Technology Council

A born consultant, David first explored entrepreneurship in 1988 during a failed lemonade stand collaboration with the other neighborhood kids. Despite this early setback, his passion for teamwork, leadership and business never faded. David’s professional career began in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ management consulting practice serving clients such as UPS, JPMorganChase and Aetna during large scale information technology projects. He went on to manage national technical support operations at NewHouse Media Group (a major private media company) and completed his tenure directing commercial operations for a $10M regional news and information website. Over these ten years David moonlighted as a non-profit director concentrating on youth leadership development initiatives for Rotary International in New Jersey. He also co-founded and ran a successful small business technology consulting company where he and a partner invented a predecessor to MySpace, and didn’t tell anyone. Vowing never to make that mistake again, David learned the most significant lesson of his entrepreneurial life – set the vision, create the best team you can, and get out of the way!

David’s leadership development experience dates back to the mid 1990’s when he collaborated with Professor John Miller at Bucknell University on John’s internationally recognized management development curriculum, Management 101. John’s theories of management stuck with David after he completed his honors work and later formed the basis for work that in 2005 became the ALOC Group. While executing youth leadership development conferences in Pennsylvania, David had the opportunity to collaborate with original ALOC partners Brian Davis, Jay Tift and Scott Crowther. The team’s collaboration and combined methods formed the foundation for ALOC which established operations in Nashville in 2007. Never wanting to get too far from the client, David balances ALOC operations with client projects across the strategic leadership development spectrum.

David holds a BSBA in Management with concentrations in Organizational Behavior and Computer Science from Bucknell University. He lives in Nashville with his wife, Adrienne.