During a 15-year tenure investing his family’s capital in small-cap companies, David has met with hundreds of small-cap officers and directors. He has occupied a front row seat to the unique challenges that routinely vex small public companies, and seen how otherwise smart, well-intentioned CEOs and boards make similar, repetitive, value-destructive decisions. A natural problem solver, he realized through years-long observation that the problem was an educative one. More specifically, the capital markets, corporate finance, and corporate governance issues that small-cap CEOs and boards face lack intuitive answers. In place of those intuitive answers is often the highly variable advice from service providers who are simply guessing how investors think. Consequently, in 2017, David founded Small-Cap Institute, and began to work on assembling that missing, comprehensive, educative resource. Previously, David joined LD Micro in 2014 to help manage the construction of the first true micro-cap index – the LD Micro Index – and oversee the rebuild of the ldmicro.com website. At LD Micro, now owned by SRAX, Inc., David was responsible for planning and executing LD Micro’s industry leading conferences each year, wherein over 5,000 one-on-one meetings between investors and micro-cap companies are facilitated. As a result of his work with LD Micro/SRAX, David occupies a unique vantage point from which to understand at a granular level which issues are most troubling to small-cap CEOs and boards.
