Executive Director of the Jon Francis Foundation, Stillwater, Minnesota. (2007-Present)To honor our son, Jon, we chose to create and lead a nonprofit with a challenging mission to sit with people in grief and attempt to help them resolve their unresolved loss. Since 2007, I personally led over 40 human services/victim support cases in 19 states and Canada. Built a start-up nonprofit corporation to financial sustainability, significant mission accomplishment and national recognition while learning, sharing and practicing knowledge on search and rescue techniques and wilderness safety Led arduous search and recovery operations and recruited hundreds of volunteers  Led annual fundraising campaigns and events for 300 generous individual donors, corporate sponsors, foundations, major gifts and partners Created and taught educational events on wilderness safety to over 3000 people.Executive Director/Director of Development/Program and Event ManagerProfile Professional, visionary and innovative Nonprofit Leader. Expertise in fundraising, marketing, communications, nonprofit management and development. Uncommon relationship builder. Successful fundraiser achieving $10,000,000. Skillful event planner and volunteer recruiter.Areas of StrengthExecutive leadership- Management and organizational development skills - Strategic planning, organizational leadership and administration - Situational leadership, decision making and problem-solving abilities - Planning and executing fundraising events - Nonprofit Development, Fundraising and Grant Writing - Marketing, promotion, branding, media relations, internet and social media - Human resource management, recruiting, evaluation, development and training.

Nonprofit Fundraising, Event and Media Management $10M, hundreds of individual donors, several corporate sponsors, major gifts and foundations. Managed the capital campaign, fundraising, design and construction of a $3,000,000 building expansion and restoration Raised $3.0 million in one year Led nonprofit fundraising programs raising $10,000,000. Developed grant requests and relationships with high net worth donors and foundations Recruited and trained hundreds of volunteers and planned and executed multiple fundraising events (“Great meal for a Great Cause,” Camp Jon and the Jon Francis Races) involving 1500 participants with high customer satisfaction Created event marketing programs, advertising, social media and web site content Achieved significant and sustained free media coverage for the mission and activities of the Jon Francis Foundation.

Past Adjunct Professor in Business at Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota.Taught college level business courses in Macroeconomics, Management Information Systems, Business Strategic Planning, Human Resources, and Business Intelligence/Analytics.

Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Systems Consulting Group (SCG) Minneapolis, Minnesota. Information Technology Consulting.Wrote a strategic business plan to win business partner relationships with Epicor Software, Microsoft, SAP and Minnesota Architectural and Engineering firms. Achieved profitable service agreements with clients and independent software vendors (ISVs) Initiated business partner relationships with Epicor Software and Microsoft.

Regional Sales Manager – Apex IT - Information Technology Consulting – Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software. Top performing regional sales manager producing $3.8 million in new sales revenue, in one year, contributing half of the company’s annual revenue. Doubled the company’s annual sales each year for 5 years. Developed profitable relationships with PeopleSoft, Oracle and Siebel Sales Grew Wells Fargo from a prospect to $2,000,000 in revenue Prospected and acquired several major and national accounts.One of my highlights at Apex IT: I negotiated and managed a pilot implementation of PeopleSoft CRM Software at the Wells Fargo Call Center in Minneapolis. At “go live” it did not go well. In response I assembled a “tiger team” of company managers and technicians. I led meetings to identify and fix our issues and gained commitment from Wells Fargo to fix theirs. Working together we successfully went live after 36 hours.The Wells Fargo Vice President of Information Technology took me aside afterwards and said, “David. Thank you for your leadership and hard work. You’ve earned my business.” Wells Fargo became a $2,000,000 account that year.

Director, Sales and Marketing, Euler Solutions - Information Technology consulting, staffing, training and software development. Leaving IBM, I accepted a difficult and risky position and turned around a small, failing enterprise by creating and executing a strategic business plan and driving successful organizational development, sales, recruitment and marketing strategies.Grew sales revenue from $900,000 to $7,000,000 and employment from 9 to 70 in 5 years and achieved $25M in new revenue.  Successfully led sales, marketing and recruiting teams to achieve outstanding results Mentored the owners on business strategic planning and development, sales, marketing, branding, human resource management and best business practices Recruited and employed over 100 highly qualified contractors, staff professionals and consultants Exceled in the acquisition and retention of clients, corporate partners and national and major accounts  Individually acquired and managed 30 new, small to medium customers and five Fortune 500 accounts (3M, Honeywell, General Mills, Pillsbury, Xcel Energy.)

U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer. Naval Reserve Commanding Officer.Advanced from Seaman Recruit to U.S. Navy Captain (in a mere 30 years). As ship’s weapons officer, I led four divisions with 40 highly trained submariners (one third of the crew) on multiple nuclear strategic missile submarine patrols Departing from active duty, I joined the naval reserve and managed administration and human resources as executive officer of a 200-member organization  Selected as Commanding Officer of an 80 Member Submarine Reserve Unit Earned top marks for readiness, morale, human resource management, training and deployment.