Executive summary
Dave is a client service and business development professional with over 24 years of experience. He is a Principal and a Global Relationship Leader for some of Grant Thornton's largest and most complex clients, and he has been recognized by the firm as a SEAL for Service Excellence in Account Leadership, serving the firm’s top, strategic and most valued clients. He has experience across several industries, including consumer/industrial products, technology, life sciences, financial services and private equity.
Dave has over six years of experience in a retained executive search firm recruiting for senior-level accounting, finance and tax professionals in the Delaware Valley. He also has ten years of experience as a finance professional with a division of a multinational Fortune 1000 pharmaceutical company. Dave has a proven track-record of professional growth and advancement and an aptitude for relationship building and process. He has strong operational, client service and business development skills, combined with a broad business perspective from directing and serving business segments during
periods of development, expansion and restructuring.
Industries
- Technology and telecommunication
- Healthcare
- Private equity
Presentations and publications
Mentoring’s Effect on Your Professional Success, Dec 2016, PICPA podcast
The Company of You, Jun 2011, PICPA publication and video interview
Master the Art of Career Growth, Mar 2010, PICPA
Coping with Hardship: How Professionals Handle Tragic Turns, Jun 2009, PICPA
Where Is Your Climb Going? CFOs Discuss What It Takes to Reach the Top, Mar 2008, PICPA
Don’t Overlook This Critical Skill: Interviewing, Jan 2008, PICPA
Develop Your Personal Brochure with Care, Sep 2007, PICPA
Changing Jobs: Is It Time?, Jun 2007, PICPA
Being a Technician is Not Enough: Develop Leadership and Communication Skills, Jan 2007, PICPA
Experiments in Reinventing Government, Dec 2001, Xlibris Corporation (formerly a division of Random House)
Community involvement
Dave is a founder and leader of the CFO Advisory Board of Philadelphia.
He has served on the boards of the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania SPCA, the CEO Alliance of Philadelphia and the Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, LaSalle University
Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics, LaSalle University
Master of Public Administration, Finance, University of Delaware