Bio

David H. Reed is founder and principal of Shepard Capital Partners and a co-founder of Dominion Capital Group, and is currently investing and managing junior capital investments for the firms. Since 2002, Shepard and Dominion have led or participated in over $200 million in fundings, including partnerships with CapitalSouth Partners, LLC, a mezzanine firm where Mr. Reed served as a Director from 2004 to 2009, and Westshore Capital Partners, a buyout firm in which Dominion was a General Partner. Since 2002, Mr. Reed has been involved with over $100 million in subordinated debt and equity investments, and sourced and led over $35 million of those. Mr. Reed 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 involved in three successful start-ups in the business services/consulting field. After receiving a Bachelors of Business Administration with a concentration in accounting from Emory University in 1987, Mr. Reed spent three years as an auditor with Deloitte & Touche in the Tampa office. He then began working in the executive recruitment and human resource consulting field, ultimately founding Catalina Human Resources, Inc. Over seven years as CEO, he grew the company to be a high quality provider of personnel consulting services in the Tampa Bay and Atlanta metro areas, before selling the business in 1998. Mr. Reed also served as the Director of Finance and CFO, respectively, on the founding teams of Hal-tec, Inc. and Rapid Wave, Inc. Hal-tec was a Tampa-based provider of CAD mapping and engineering services with offices throughout the United States, and Rapid Wave an Atlanta-based provider of high-end web services. Mr. Reed is a co-founder of The Sustany Foundation (www.sustany.org) and Housing First Steps Forward, Inc. and serves on the Boards of Bankers Financial Corporation and The TTI Companies, among others. He is a member of the Florida Chapter of World Presidents Organization, a former member of the Board of Governors of the Sloan Fellows Program at MIT, and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Florida (inactive status).