David Reed Bio

David H. Reed is founder and principal of Shepard Capital Partners and is active sourcing, evaluating, executing and managing equity and junior capital investments for the firm. Since 2002, Mr. Reed has led or participated in over $400 million in fundings for buyouts, startups and growth capital across multiple industries. Mr. Reed received a Bachelor’s in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from Emory University in 1987, and completed the Sloan Fellows Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in 2002, where he earned a Masters of Business Administration. Prior to Sloan, he was a CPA in the State of Florida and was involved in three successful start-ups in the business services/consulting field. Mr. Reed is a co-founder of The Sustany Foundation, Housing First Steps Forward, Inc. and CRISP of Tampa and serves on the Boards of Bankers Financial Corporation and Precision Build Companies, among others. He is a member of the Florida Chapter of YPO Gold, and a former member of the Board of Governors of the Sloan Fellows Program at MIT.