Dave is the COO for Voxel51, and his true love - other than his kids - is building software to improve the material world around us. Prior, he was an executive at Wade & Wendy, an NLP and AI company in the HR and recruiting space. Wade & Wendy was acquired by PandoLogic (which was then acquired by Veritone), where he oversaw operations and people. Before that he held leadership positions at high-growth FinTech and FoodTech companies. He holds a bachelor's from the University of Michigan and a master's from the University of Pennsylvania.

The Pop in Your Job – What drives you? Why do you love your job?
I wake up every day incredibly excited to get started: there is nothing quite like working on something that you care about with your whole heart, and I am extremely lucky that I get to work towards our mission: to bring transparency and clarity to the world’s data. The fact that I get to do so alongside incredible people - with our diverse world-class team and with truly unbelievable users across the world that are solving huge, fascinating problems everyday: making our world safer, more efficient, and simply better.

Voxel51’s FiftyOne accelerates the development of visual AI applications. Trusted by automakers, suppliers, and ML teams around the world, FiftyOne is a refinery for data and models: explore, visualize, curate, and work with data, and then bring the AI model development process to the data. All while automating the workflows that make enterprise machine learning possible.