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David Gates is a results-oriented individual with several years of senior management, strategic/tactical planning, operations, and business development experience in entrepreneurial and corporate environments. Mr. Gates spearheaded early-stage operations and turned around organizations facing significant competitive and financial challenges. After eight years of increasing responsibility in a variety of business units within the DuPont Company, Mr. Gates acquired, grew, and sold an early-stage technology company. He was then Executive Vice President at a middle-market electronics technology firm. In 1999, Mr. Gates founded Gates and Company, a top-caliber management consulting and investment banking firm based in Wilmington, Delaware. Mr. Gates has a strong educational foundation upon which he has layered his multiple experiences. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Tulsa, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University, and an MBA from The Wharton School. He is conversant in German having spent a portion of his undergraduate time at the University of Salzburg, Austria and a co-op program with Contraves AG in Zurich, Switzerland. Mr. Gates is an occasional guest lecturer at the MBA programs of Temple University, Drexel University, the University of Delaware, and The Wharton School; Board of Managers of the Penn Mezzanine Fund; Treasurer for the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Society of Delaware; co-founder of Diamond State Ventures; Advisory Board member for First State Innovations; and Board member of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. He is a private pilot and piano/keyboard musician and songwriter.
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