About
Dave is a technology entrepreneur.
Currently, he is the Senior Platform Manager at Facebook. He is responsible for the company’s platform strategy and further expanding the developer community.
Prior to Facebook, Dave held positions at Apple, including Manager of Creation & Collaboration and Manager of Higher Education Marketing. He also founded a design focused Internet software company called DM Design Studios in his college dorm room.
A passionate and well received speaker, Dave has delivered keynotes and spoken at events worldwide such as South by Southwest, Future of Web Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, Le Web, Microsoft MIX, O’Reilly Foo Camp, and Facebook f8.
Dave received a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dave was named as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company.
Dave grew up in the big sky state of Montana. Today, he lives in San Francisco’s North Beach district and works in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Dave is the Senior Platform Manager at Facebook. He is responsible for the company’s platform strategy and further expanding the developer community.
Today, Dave is working to make the web a more social place through Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect is now leveraged by over 10,000 websites and applications to empower their users to connect and share with their friends across the Web, the iPhone, and many other devices and consoles.
Previously, Dave led the launch of the revolutionary Facebook Platform, the world’s first social platform. Since launch, the Facebook Developer community has has grown to over 950,000 developers in 180 countries. Over 350,000 active applications have been created and have been installed over 5.6 billion times by over 200 million people worldwide.
Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people’s real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a part of millions of people’s lives and half of the users return daily. Facebook is a privately-held company and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Apple
At Apple, Dave began his career as the Manager of Higher Education Marketing, leading student marketing strategy and programs worldwide, online and offline, including building and managing the worldwide network of over 800 Apple Campus Reps.
It was in this role that he pioneered social media marketing strategy as the first marketer to engage the social network Facebook, creating the “Apple Students” group which subsequently skyrocketed to over 500,000 members, and was a channel for a number of first-of-a-kind social media marketing campaigns including the distribution of 250 million free iTunes songs to students.
Apple Students was one of Apple’s most successful digital media strategies ever, the first of its kind, and today continues to host a vibrant community of over 1.3+ million students worldwide.
Dave then moved on to product and marketing strategy taking on the role of Manager of Creation and Collaboration. In this role he worked to evolve Mac OS X Leopard to become a world-class web development platform by incorporating technologies such as Ruby on Rails. He was also involved in product and marketing strategy around Apple’s consumer software suite: iLife ‘08 and iWork ‘08. He also contributed to the iTunes U strategy which has redefined how education content is distributed to students all over the world. In addition, he pursued a dream of one day integrating the social graph into Mac OS X.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.
Advisory
Rupture
At Rupture, Dave joined as the first Advisor to the company. In this role, he helped to form the initial vision and product strategy alongside Founders Shawn Fanning and Jonathan Baudanza, helping to spark investment from legendary angel investor Ron Conway and attract interest from the gaming and investment communities. In early 2008, Rupture was acquired by Electronic Arts.
Rupture is an interactive community that enables multiple levels of communication and information exchange between online gamers, whether you’re hard-core or a casual gamer. Rupture connects you to the people you play with online through a universal network.
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