Bio

David is a co-founder and Managing Director of Socius Capital. He has spent the last 25+ years investing in smaller middle market companies in a senior management capacity. Dave began his direct investing career in 1987 as an investment manager and later as a General Partner of Amsterdam Pacific Corporation, a San Francisco based merchant bank. He later co-founded and served as General Partner of an affiliated entity, Pacific Mezzanine Fund. In 1999, he was recruited by GATX Capital to serve as the co-head of a recently formed Mezzanine Investment Group. Just prior to the formation of Socius Capital, Dave was a Managing Director with Vintage Capital, a structured debt and equity fund based in Los Angeles. At Socius Capital, Dave served on the board of two portfolio companies that have now been fully exited, OTSP and Wazee Companies. He currently serves on the board of Precision Machine and Manufacturing, Inc. and Pioneer Recycling Services, LLC. Prior to becoming involved in direct investing, he was a consultant with Bain and Company as well as having had a successful stint in sales for General Electric. At Bain and Company, he was part of a three-person team that relocated to Australia to establish operations in that country. Dave graduated with a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Yale University in 1978 and received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1984. He currently divides his time between San Francisco and Ketchum, Idaho where he enjoys a number of outdoor pursuits including fishing, hiking, biking hunting and golf. He also serves as a board member, member of the executive committee and Treasurer of the Wood River Land Trust.