David Lehrer Email & Phone Number

Potomac Falls, Virginia, Us

Founded AI software startup and pivoted to cybersecurity monitoring and detectionLed product development winning numerous international innovation awardsBuilt global technical team and opened offices in Washington, NYC, Montreal, London and BerlinDeveloped go-to-market strategy and partnerships with Acronis, Microsoft, IBM and AccentureRaised pre-seed financing from leading angels, VCs and accelerators including founder of SAPDelivered inaugural Founders Lecture at CISPA Saarland, the largest cybersecurity research institute in EuropeParticipated in and moderated panels on emerging new AI and quantum technologies for cybersecurity at Canada Fintech Forum Montreal and NYIT cyber conference NYCDelivered multiple invited Innovation Talks at Infosecurity LondonKeynote speaker at StartupWeekend TrentoInvited speaker on entrepreneurship in courses and events at McGill University business school

Interviewed, featured speaker, profiled and panels moderated in Chinese national TV news CGTN, New York Times Idea of the Year, Foreign Policy, World Economic Forum, Science, Australian national public radio, Clarin largest newspaper in Latin America, Wall Street Journal, European Union Joint Research Center Italy, US Department of State in Ljubljana, Norwegian government foreign policy think tank Oslo, Greek government foreign policy think tank and NATO in Halki, Finnish House of Parliament Helsinki, National Bank of Romania Bucharest, UBS philanthropy summit Monaco, IBM national independent software vendor summit Germany voted first prize for business innovation. Participated in Does Russia Need the West? conference with Mikhail Gorbachev invited by Russian government and US Embassy Moscow, German startup trade mission to Tel Aviv with Vice-Chancellor of Germany, Bush-Putin summit in Bratislava invited by German Marshall Fund of the US.

World Bank Private Sector Development Hired by Chief Economist of International Finance Corporation to design, develop, manage, market the World Bank’s first public knowledge productAOLPrototyped the first online usage (advertising/promotional click-through) tracking system in the then-nascent online industry. Business process design and strategic planning for spin-offs and M&ACEZInternational renewable energy strategy across wind, solar, hydro and other for Czech national energy monopolyKomercni banka (Societe Generale)Advised management in Prague on strategic review and organizational change process in preparation for one of the largest bank privatizations in Central and Eastern EuropeUBS Philanthropy ServicesLed team writing investment strategy paper for Ultra High Net worth philanthropists supporting emerging environmental and cleantech initiativesLiechtenstein Dialogue on the Future of Financial MarketsPolicy review of financial sector and tax reform for Prime Minister and Finance Minister of LiechtensteinInter-American Development Bank Developed toolkit and policy recommendations for institutional and regulatory reform of health sector in Latin America.Kaiser Permanente InternationalBusiness development for proposal to Minister of Health to monitor reform of Argentina’s $6+ billion public health trustsWorld Bank Human Development DepartmentAssessed international business and IP environment for new malaria and HIV vaccine R&D financing structures that eventually led to establishment of GAVI in SwitzerlandMassachusetts Governor’s Economic Council, Task Force on International TradeBenchmarked rival state activities for export and foreign direct investment policy recommendations to Governor Bill Weld United Nations Development Program Led team building state-of-the-art interactive knowledge management system to analyze 20 years of urban environmental experience. System implemented on 4 continents

Oxford University (Oriel College) Visiting Fellow in Criminology, Tutor in Philosophy of Social Science and Research Associate in International Development2007Social Science Research Institute Berlin (WZB)Visiting researcher in political economy and transnational security2005Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki)Visiting Researcher in political economy of postcommunist transition in central bank of Finland2003

APM (CSC)Junior Associate1995-1996Strategic planning and organizational redesign for two US hospitals. HMO merger pre-due diligenceJSA (Kearney)Research Associate1994-1995Consulted at boardroom level to Fortune 100 European and US aerospace companies on product, competitive and M&A strategyMediaMap (Cision) Product Manager1993-1994Led turnaround and trebled sales of second-largest information product for Inc. 500 marketing information firm

Master'S Degree, Public Administration

Master'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S Degree

Postgraduate Study And Teaching In Political Economy And Transnational Security