Before joining Dell EMC, Dave was a strategic advisor to several healthcare ISVs, startups, and investment banks while co-founding WhatNext, a social media platform for patient experience mining and medical language discovery which is aligned with the American Cancer Society and several other healthcare and life science organizations. Prior to this, Dave was the Senior Vice President of Product Innovation at Technology Solution Company (TSC) where he drove new business and product development. While at TSC, he also founded new lines of business including their Healthcare Solutions Group along with several product offerings. Overall, Dave has 15 years of technology solutions and services development experience and was a Vice President, Technical Master V and National Practice Leader at the leading Healthcare and Life Sciences firm First Consulting Group. Dave has written numerous articles, technical white papers, book chapters, and has taught a number of technology courses over his extensive career. He has a MS in Engineering Management from Northeastern University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His is an Adjunct Professor at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College in the MBA program with a focus on the business of healthcare technology and analytics and is the Chairman the Health Delivery Institute Advisory Board at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he guides the growth of their Living Lab Launchpad for research, innovation and commercialization. In addition, at Dell EMC, Dave is leading a GenNext employee resource group initiated to develop tools and novel methods for mass mentoring of diverse / young-in-career employees.

EDUCATION

• –  MS Engineering Management – Northeastern University – Concentration in Software Design and Engineering

• –  BS in Electrical Engineering – University of Massachusetts – High Honors

• –  Executive Scholars program coursework at the Kellogg School of Management in the area of Operations Management

• –  Pragmatic Product Management – training and certification in NPD and PLM processes and techniques

• –  Extension training in Stage-Gate, Lean and Agile.

  ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

• –  Adjunct Faculty – The F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College in the MBA program with a focus on the healthcare analytics

• –  Lecturer – College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), Scottsdale Institute