David is the Chief Investment Officer of 1102 Partners. He has 40 years of investment experience – 31 as a portfolio manager. David is also a Director of ClearSign Technologies Corporation (CLIR).He served ultra-high net worth families for more than 15 years at Harris Bank in Chicago, where his duties included managing a customized global equity portfolio designed to provide reliable and growing income streams. This experience continues to inform David’s management of 1102 family and client portfolios to this day, with a global Quality Dividend Growth strategy often serving as the core equity portfolio in a diversified asset mix.David later spent 12 years at Ariel Investments, where he led the firm’s efforts in micro-cap and small-cap deep value investing, bringing to the firm a strategy he launched in 2002 at Maple Hill Capital Management. 1102 Partners is now that strategy’s third home, with David as sole decision-maker at each stop.David started his career in Equity Sales and Trading at Goldman Sachs, where as a member of the Chicago Institutional Department he specialized in equity derivatives serving the Midwest’s largest banks, mutual funds, pension plans and hedge funds. David joined Goldman Sachs after earning his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he received a full merit scholarship after graduating from the University of Notre Dame with High Honors.David and his wife Judy met at Booth and have expanded their life partnership to running a business together with the 2021 launch of 1102. They have three adult children. When not serving their clients, they enjoy long walks together in Chicago’s parks or California’s desert; playing pickleball; and attending sporting events, theatre, and concerts.David is a national-class age-group distance runner, competing at distances from 5k through the marathon. Named Chicago Area Runners Association’s Senior Male Runner of the Year in 2022 and 2023, he credits the discipline he developed as a high school and college cross country runner with giving him the focus and confidence to find success first academically and later in the investment world.1102 Partners, LLC is a registered investment advisor. Advisory services are only offered to clients or prospective clients where 1102 Partners and its representatives are properly licensed or exempt from licensure. For additional information and important disclosures, please visit our website at www.1102partners.com.