Halisi is a startup that produces fine African Cognac-style brandy. We are passionate about creating a world-class brandy that disrupts the traditional 3 tier system and integrates the power of sports, music and entertainment. With David's 16+ years of experience in the alcohol industry his roll has been to develop and implement a comprehensive operational strategy while overseeing all aspects of production, sourcing, quality control and bottling. His role includes management and development of the financial model, compliance and both traditional and non traditional sales and marketing channels. As a start-up David has been focused on getting the company to market and will now transition to implementation of a strategic operational plan and building the business.

Inici Enterprises allows David to leverage his over 16 years of experience in and around alcohol including import, distribution, and sourcing from his last company H2Vino in addition to his 10+ years of consulting experience. Prior to H2Vino, David co-founded the Virtual Job Fair and CareerCast and was an original member of a Deloitte Consulting spin off, now Isobar where he worked as a Director building web enabled business solutions for the Fortune 500. He is most comfortable working to develop business models, supply chains and delivery mechanisms in the new economy. He thrives working in and around ever evolving business life cycles and is well suited in new development where he can work from ideation all the way to fulfillment within a business model.

Building strategic alliances in the global supply chain, while working on local service offerings and business process improvement. In addition, I am utilizing international relationships to help build and develop a new brand while structuring the company to support it.

H2Vino, LLC is a fine wine and Liquor importer and distributor in the state of Illinois. They import and sell wines from the US, Spain, Argentina, France, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile to name a few. David structured H2Vino to have both and Import and Distribution License to allow more control of the 3 Tier system allowing us to choose great wines from around the world directly and increase the profit margin from managing 2 of the 3 tiers. Starting in 2006 I concepted, raised funds/funded, and grew this business to include global importing, new product development, distribution, warehousing and delivery. During expansion we built a global supply chain management system with partners in Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand while expanding from 4 initial partners to more than 27 employees. We implemented local supply chain management with warehousing and trucking control, and improve our ability to deliver and manage quality products. H2Vino doubled in growth for the first 3 years and grew from 50 SKU's to over 600 achieving steady growth until the company was sold in January of 2022.David successfully piloted H2Vino through the 25% international tariff increases and Covid with a client base that was over 50% on premise. At the end of 2021 David took the opportunity to manage a successful sale and transition of the import and distribution business while separating the warehouse and delivery side. David believes one of the major keys to their success was the implementation and nurturing of a constructive culture that allowed H2Vino to keep employee turnover extremely low.

David was recruited by Deloitte Consulting for a spin-off, Roundarch, now Isobar. He entered the business as the first non-Deloitte employee hired, and his job was to bridge the gap between business consulting/ systems integration and the beginnings of User Centered Design. David earned several quick promotions by demonstrating excellence in project and program management and his deft abilities at handling complex client issues within a project. He was often called upon to use his abilities as a translator helping business, systems and creative stakeholders understand how implementation served each business unit, and how the dependencies were interrelated often in a competitive environment.David helped hire and develop the UE and UCD portion of Roundarch and then quickly transitioned into a program management role as a Director. David worked tirelessly on new business development and was credited with the development of a company wide commission program for the sales and delivery teams. Some of David's client engagements included: Motorola, CIBC, Bear Stearns, The History Channel, JP Morgan Chase (JPMC), Deutsche Bank, Saudi Aramco, Holcim, U.S. Air Force (USAF), and Cable and Wireless

David was hired initially to help replace 40mm in lost billable services by the departure of Buick. He was tasked with assisting in new business development and later started JTC's interactive department. David used his vision to hire and build an interactive agency department focusing on early ad serving, banner and ad development and early web design. Within the first two years a combination of new business development and wins along with interactive services had bridged the loss of Buick.

David and his partners developed one of the first online career sites. It was the first to "skim" or aggregate jobs listings from other job sites and corporate web postings allowing a one stop to find most of the job listings on the Web. We worked with ground breaking new technology that allowed CareerCast to have a short lived advantage over other job sites. David managed all partner and business relations in addition to building out the sales program. David exited CareerCast via a sale of his shares to the Wall Street Journal who bought a stake in the business.

David was hired to develop the first online recruitment tools for a department of JWalter Thompson Advertising. David quickly established himself as an expert in the field and was tasked with creation and implementation of - The Virtual Job Fair, resume works and was a speaker at regional and national recruiting events. David was then tasked with managing the roll out and sales and training of these tools to JWT's more than 20 national offices. David spent a year traveling and teaching fortune 100 companies how to start recruiting online. David was instrumental in the development of the business plan to execute, deliver and financially manage this program.

David was hired to create a department that resold recruitment services through partnerships. He established an incentivized partnership service with several national recruitment agencies helping to grow the core business of Adlab by selling Adlab services through the other agencies. Revenue was funneled through the partners and Adlab both, creating a symbiotic relationship where both parties were able to grow and thrive utilizing the services of each other.