As a Senior Advisor at Eficens Systems, David has multi-decade experience as a financial services and technology executive, regulator, consultant, and thought leader in applying emerging and transformative technologies to complex strategic business problems across public and private sectors.

He founded the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Interactive Data, where he started and ran the XBRL-based digitalization of corporate and fund filings and co-created the Legal Entity Identifier. David also served on the stand-up team for the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Financial Research. He has served in strategy and product leadership roles at McGraw-Hill and Standard & Poor’s and was the head of data governance and policy at the global bank State Street Corporation. He has consulted at McKinsey & Company, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Accenture. Most recently, David was co-founder and head of strategy and marketing at privacy-enhanced technology start-up Helios Data.

David received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and his BA in Economics from the University of Chicago.