As a pioneer in community based programming for older adults living with depression and anxiety, David applied his entrepreneurial talents to two under served communities: 1) Older adults seeking values based care options as they age; 2) Students seeking values based off campus housing options. Over 25 years and without any investment dollars, he built 2 privately held values based multimillion dollar portfolios to service each of these communities. He was bundling services and building technical and community networks long before wifi was a thing!As founder and CEO Datin Properties Inc, over 20+ years, David grew a privately held multimillion dollar portfolio of off campus student housing in university/college cities and towns throughout Nova Scotia. With the highest post-secondary learning institutions per capita in Canada, the off campus student housing market was ripe for disruption. In the late 1990s David started provided “turn-key all inclusive off campus housing” where students could pick and customize service bundles, including utilities, transportation, internet access, housekeeping, etc. With a professional background in community based programming for older adults living with depression and anxiety, David saw an opportunity to employ his entrepreneurial skills to purchase a distressed privately owned Assisted Living Community. As the new owner/operator of Bridgewater Retirement Centre Inc, he developed a collaborative culture based on the principles of healthy aging with the plan to provide more options for aging elders in a compassionate and cost conscious manner. Within months, staff turnover decreased by over 40% and a waitlist was established for residents. Soon after, another community was acquired and David grew the enterprise value by over 4.5 times. Seeing a role for technology in the care of our elders, David played with the idea of employing technology to connect people to build better relationships to drive better care/services with the result being an increase in NOI. The proof of concept was incubated in David’s first assisted living community and, through his existing network, he was able to commercialize Nxtgen Care 1.0 in both Canada and the US. Built by operators for operators, Nxtgen Care's enterprise health care and business intelligence software, helps operators of seniors care communities enhance care and unlock hidden NOI. As Co-founder and CEO of Nxtgen Care, David decided to sell both Datin Properties and Bridgewater Retirement Centre Inc to focus on growing Nxtgen Care.