David Gardner is a serial entrepreneur, writer, adviser and very early stage investor with nearly thirty years of experience in creating and building software technology companies. He has distilled his experience in a popular book called “The Startup Hats”, and has published many through leadership articles and forward thinking white papers on technical, marketing and managerial topics. 

What drives David today is his passionate for helping smart, coachable first-time entrepreneurs, watching them succeed and witnessing their life-changing exits.

As an entrepreneur, David has been the founder or cofounder of multiple successful companies in the Triangle including PeopleClick which was purchased for $100M and Report2Web which sold for $12M in less than eleven months from inception. 

He has demonstrated a record for consistency across multiple industries and markets with six successful exits in a row.

As a senior executive, David served as a Vice President for Compuware, a billion dollar Fortune 1000 corporation, after it acquired ProviderLink, a healthcare communications exchange he founded.

He is a life-long learner with degrees in CS, Business, Music Philosophy.