Dave Howard was named President of EPIC Select in April 2020. EPIC Select’s mission is to partner with trusted advisor firms for highly successful people, including professional athletes and entertainers, to offer their clients high-touch, consultative service on risk management and insurance.Dave is a renowned executive with more than 25 years’ professional sports management experience leading the business operations of best-in-class organizations and venues. A high character executive with a sterling personal and professional reputation, the hallmark of Dave's leadership is establishing a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture.Dave was an executive with the New York Mets for 21 years, where for most of his tenure he oversaw all business operations. Dave recruited and mentored many executives who now hold significant leadership positions throughout the sports and entertainment industry, including the first two female and the first BIPOC senior business executives in Mets history. Dave was recruited from the Mets to become President of MSG Sports, where he presided over the third and final phase and grand reopening of the Transformed MSG Arena. After leaving MSG, Dave co-founded a consulting practice advising professional sports team owners and senior executives on strategic planning, organizational structure, facility design, contracting and operations. A principal owner of one of his sports team clients recruited Dave to become CEO of one of his portfolio companies, the Brightline high speed train service in Miami, where he led the transformation of this project into a hospitality-centric operating business. He left Brightline in 2018 and returned to consulting until joining EPIC. Dave holds an AB degree in Economics magna cum laude from Dartmouth College, where he played football and baseball, and was a Rhodes Scholar finalist for the State of New Hampshire. He received his law degree cum laude from Fordham Law School, placing second in his first-year law class and serving as Managing Editor of the Fordham Law Review. He clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and was an associate at Davis Polk and Wardwell in New York City. He then moved to the Major League Baseball Commissioner’s Office as Associate Counsel before joining the Mets as their first General Counsel. ✉ Dave.Howard@epicbrokers.com☏ 646-480-6184Specialties: Insurance Solutions | Private Client Consulting | Sports & Entertainment Insurance | Business Development | Sports Management