David joined T3 in early 2006 and brings with him a well established, twenty plus year career in entrepreneurial and early stage development, and, corporate management and finance with payment card, transaction processing, financial services and technology companies.

His entrepreneurial background includes Managing Member of Augury Capital Management and General Partner of Augury Capital Partners, LLC an emerging technologies venture capital fund focused on financial services and information technology. Previously, as Founder and General Partner of Hela Capital Partners, David acquired a 12% pre-IPO interest in Kanbay (NASDAQ:KBAY), a leading provider of outsourced, India staffed IT services recently acquired by Capgemeni. He also served as Managing Director of Gryphon Investments II, a technology focused venture capital firm. In payments and transaction processing, David’s background includes his role as Chief Financial Officer of First USA subsidiary and leading payment processor Paymentech where he successfully guided Paymentech’s initial public offering and orchestrated twenty-two acquisitions over a two year period. Subsequently, David served as Chief Financial Officer of PaylinX, an early provider of ecommerce services to retailers until its sale to CyberSource Corporation. Early in his career, David spent several years in the Corporate Finance Division of A. G. Edwards & Sons, the last five years of which were as Managing Director of new business development.

David earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a B.S. in Accounting from Saint Louis University. A resident of St. Louis, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Enterprise Bank, Inc. and is a Certified Public Accountant.