Dave is a partner in our Boston office who focuses on investments in healthcare technology and care delivery, with a special interest in data-centric platforms powered by ML and AI. He joined Polaris in 2000 after his first career as a technology operating executive and entrepreneur. He has been a founding investor or served in a chair capacity for many of the companies with which he’s partnered.
Dave also serves as a managing partner of Polaris Funds VI-IX.
He currently represents Polaris on the boards of Cohere Health, Proof (fka Notarize), OM1, SimonData, Sonrai Security and TauSight. He also works closely with Lob, PathAI, and UpDoc.
Previously, he partnered with other transformative portfolio companies from inception through exit, including: Archivas (Hitachi Data Systems), Armorblox (Cisco), Automattic/WordPress, (Iconiq Capital/Tiger Global), Boxever (Sitecore), Bitium (Google), Confluence (TA Associates), CliQr (Cisco), Drizly (Uber), Egnyte (TA Associates/GI Partners), Imprivata (NASDAQ: IMPR, Thoma Bravo), Logentries (NASDAQ: RPD), LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM), MarkMonitor (Thomson Reuters), Phytel (IBM), Profitero (Publicis), Q1 Labs (IBM), Recurly (AKKR), and vKernel (Dell).
Prior to joining Polaris, Dave was chief operating officer of Calico. During his leadership, the company evolved from startup through IPO with over $3.5 billion in market value. Before that, he was senior vice president of worldwide operations for Pure Atria/Rational Software, a publicly-held market leader acquired by IBM for $2 billion. Earlier, in 12 years with Lotus Development in a number of leadership roles including vice president and general manager of sales and services, he helped the company become one of the last generation’s two largest software companies before IBM acquired it for $3.5 billion.
Dave is an Always-On Venture Capital 100 and Venture Capital East 50 recipient (2016-17) and has been named an Always-On “Power Player in the Cloud” (2014-2019), and “FinTech Power Player” (2019). He’s been a mentor for TechStars, Harvard iLab and IBM SmartCamp, a guest lecturer at Harvard, HBS, and MIT, an advisor to Mass General Brigham World Medical Innovation Forum, and a founding member of the Microsoft Advisory Board.
He serves on the Board of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, on its investment committee, and as an advisor to its venture investment efforts.
He holds a B.S. from the University of Rhode Island, where he serves as a member of the Edwards Society, an advisory board to the University President, on the College of Business Dean’s Advisory Board, and as an advisor to the Director of Athletics.