David

About David

As an Assurance Partner in EY’s Redwood City office, I have over 29 years of experience serving both public and private clients in industries such as software, SaaS, semi-conductors, life sciences, networking equipment, computers/peripherals, and real estate. I’ve helped my clients, which range from fast-growing pre-IPO entities to large multi-national corporations, successfully complete numerous transactions including public offerings, private placements, acquisitions, spin-offs and collaborations. I get a charge out of working with emerging companies and advising them through their growth cycle to become successful enterprises. EY’s Global Technology Center, based in San Jose, is focused on continuous innovation, shifting markets, converging industries, consumer demand and the need for first mover advantage. We bring together over professionals around the globe to help clients manage risk, transform business performance and sustain improvement. In the Bay Area, EY has more than 1,900 people in its San Francisco, San Jose and Redwood City offices who serve a diverse client base of innovative and entrepreneurial companies spanning the technology, real estate, consumer products, asset management and insurance, banking and capital markets, health care and social media industries. EY is the #1 firm in taking companies public, serving more than 75 percent of the region’s companies listed on the Silicon Valley 150 (by market cap) and almost 90% of the region’s Fortune

Experience

1. Assurance Partner

   EY

   Sep 1988 — Present

   Global Client Service Partner, directing the audit and broader suite of services for multi-national corporations. In this capacity I’ve advised clients in technology and life sciences industries on SEC financial reporting matters, acquisitions and divestitures, raising public equity and debt, private placements and collaborations. I also have significant experience performing audits of internal control over financial reporting in connection with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and assisting public companies with SEC Registration Statements.Authored and led training courses on accounting and auditing issues relevant to high technology companies and on revenue recognition accounting.

Education

• Stanford University

  Bachelors, Economics

  1984 — 1988

• University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

  MBA, Management, finance

  1991 — 1994