Talent Skills Journey – Transforming Junior Tech Workers Into Valued Engineers

Dave co-founded Proactive Technologies, a New York City based MSP, in 2007 and served as Proactive's COO/CFO from inception until the company was sold in 2019. During that time Proactive made the Inc. 5000 list seven times, growing to $10M in annual revenue before being acquired by Abacus Group in 2019. Dave served as Managing Director at Abacus until the transition was completed.

Dave is now a partner at Encore Strategic, a coaching and recruiting company that focuses on scaling healthy teams for MSPs. Dave serves as a peer group facilitator and oversees the recruiting arm of the business. He spreads the gospel of “strategic entry level hiring” at every opportunity. Dave has been a featured speaker at IT Nation, The Big BIG, BuildIT Live, CompTIA ChannelCon and NYU's business incubator. Dave has done extensive research related to the areas of recruiting personnel and scaling a professional services business.