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David is responsible for leading all strategic aspects of the company including the stewardship of its Vision, Mission, and Values. He is also responsible for ensuring its culture of continuous market-making innovation and creative disruption.

Transact became a stand-alone company from Blackboard in May 2019. David joined Blackboard in 2006 and during his tenure, held several leadership roles including Chief Development Officer and head of Enterprise Operations, President of Blackboard Transact, and Senior Vice President of Global Consulting and Application Service Provider (ASP). His leadership ensured client solutions were innovative, effectively implemented, and scalable to meet the dynamic needs of the students they serve.

Before joining Blackboard, David was a Managing Director (MD) at BearingPoint (formally KPMG Consulting) in the State & Local Government and Education practices. During this time, as KPMG’s Partner/MD on the US Department of Education, he led a multi-year modernization and re-engineering effort at the Office of Federal Student Aid. There, he was one of the principal architects of Common Origination and Disbursement, the system that ensures delivery of over $140 billion dollars in Federal Student Financial Aid to over 6,000 institutions serving over 15 million students on an annual basis.

David also led KPMG/BearingPoint’s Higher Education Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence practice as well as developed BearingPoint’s marquee CRM strategy offering, “Student for Life.” Prior to that, he was a CPA in KPMG’s Audit Practice.

As a national speaker, David is considered an expert in topics such as “The Impact of Technology in Education,” “Ensuring Access to Education through Technology,” and “The Delivery of Frictionless Mobile Innovation.”

David holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Bachelor of Science in Management and Economics from University of North Carolina. David resides in the Washington, DC, metro area with his wife and two sons.