Dave Tompkins

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About Dave Tompkins

Seasoned executive, board member, and strategic advisor with over 40 years of global experience recruiting, leading, and scaling high-performance teams. Successfully executed all C-level positions and has served on the senior management teams of organizations that range from publicly traded companies to pre-revenue startups. I have the willingness and tenacity to take on the most unique and challenging assignments - assignments that require me to quickly accelerate steep learning curves in new and often foreign environments. Managed organizations across the US, Europe and Asia/Australia. Early stage venture capital investor with over 20 portfolio companies with many of them tracking toward 10X returns. Successfully led multiple liquidity events and served as a senior sales executive for a company that achieved a $9.3b sale. With a passion for creativity and innovation, I have brought to market, monetized, and scaled numerous new products, programs, and events, along with mega-events including The Kentucky Derby. Extensive experience leading large-scale and multi-disciplined transformation projects. A career of 'firsts'- As an Army officer, led the deployment of nuclear and chemical weapons to US military units across Western Europe, playing a measurable role in the ending of the Cold War- After earning an MBA from Stanford, I was the first individual in Accenture's Supply Chain Strategy Practice to manage engagements for high-tech clients which included HP, Microsoft, and Motorola- Deployed to Asia in the wake of the then largest software company M&A event in the world, I led the sales and deployment of the merged solution set to multiple enterprise customers across Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and Australia- As head of sales and marketing for a Silicon Valley software startup, responded to the Board's emergency request to immediately assume CFO role. Reduced company burn by 80% while leading the process to sell the company to a strategic buyer. And when not working, I am a storyteller and frequent guest on sports podcasts. Nearing completion of my first novel.