Establish the Open Foresight Hub as the platform - based on open and collaborative principles - for the exchange of views about futures and the forces shaping them; and about foresight methods and the people and organizations creating and using them. Centered on crowd-sourced wiki principles, the Open Foresight Hub is designed for anyone to access and contribute to the collective effort.

David leads the Insights Research Center at SAP, which studies global audiences, trends, issues, and opportunities at the intersection of business and technology.

Lead global marketing team for the SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics business, a machine learning platform for both analysts and data scientists. Manage innovation lab creating data analytics showcases with customers, partners, and not-for-profit organizations.

Incubate innovations involving Big Data and the Internet of Things; bring together customers, strategic partners, startups and the academic community with SAP teams to build holistic solutions to complex problems. Execute thought leadership programs designed to drive engagement with strategic customers.

Lead Big Data go-to-market initiatives at SAP including SAP’s solutions in data management, analytics, and Big Data enabled applications, and across critical industries and lines of business. Helping drive SAP's efforts from launching SAP's Big Data strategy to the market, growing us to #1 in Big Data software revenue (according to Wikibon), to driving thought leadership topics, and strategic projects.

Manage product marketing teams responsible for global GTM plan, market messages, and sales plays for enterprise, embedded, mobile and cloud databases, columnar analytics database, and replication technologies. Involved in all aspects of product marketing management including market and customer research, product brand management, advertising and marketing campaigns, and 10+ product launches. Act as thought leader speaking at conferences and seminars, press and analyst briefings, through technical papers and articles.

Manage the GTM efforts for database and synchronization and mobile middleware product lines. Involved in all aspects of product management including market and customer research, product positioning and market messsages. Evangelism through analyst briefings, media relations, published articles, and seminars and conferences, including CTIA Wireless, Gartner Wireless & Mobile. Business development efforts included managing technology partners, inside sales, partner co-marketing, partner development, and sales channel management.

Managing an international team of software developers creating custom software for software technology companies. Designing and implementing Web-based e-business and knowledge management systems for software technology companies.

Manage client-based development projects and the evolution of company's software products. Define product requirements, producing project timelines, and oversee different software and media development projects with teams of 2-5 developers.

Worked for director of the Center for Learning & Teaching Through Technology, and a leader in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research, to build tools exploring the boundaries of online learning and knowledge sharing

Build and maintain internal, Web-based registration and course calendar tools. Deliver half-day training for students and university staff on Web-based development languages such as Perl and HTML.