Experience

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  Accelerate Success

  • Worldwide (via the Internet)

  • Founder & Chief Vision Officer

    • Jan 2009 - Present
    • Worldwide (via the Internet)

    Accelerate Success is a unique mentoring program that assists high performers in accelerating their success in a manner that then supports their favorite charity. The Venture Accelerator is a subset of the program, wherein super talented entrepreneurs are building extraordinary businesses in industries such as Mobile Communications and Hospitality.

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  Partners for Market Leadership, LLC

  • CEO

    • Jan 1995 - Dec 2011

    Founder of this Atlanta based, boutique consulting firm providing leading professional service firms with strategic and tactical assistance in new business development and superior client service. Mentor to high performers at leading law firms, consulting firms, investment banks, and accounting firms.

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  Coopers & Lybrand

  • National Director of Financial Advisory Services

    • Jan 1978 - Dec 1994

    Leader of the 750 professionals that specialized in litigation services, bankruptcy & restructuring services, corporate finance, M&A, and valuation. One of the five divisions of Coopers and, under Dave's leadership, the fastest growing.

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  Girard Bank

  • Banking Officer

    • Jun 1972 - Dec 1977

    Executive responsibility for work-outs of this bank's most distressed, large commercial loans. Before merging with Mellon Bank, Girard was one of the fifty largest commercial banks in the U.S.