David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, author and keynote speaker who has founded or funded over 100 pioneering companies. He is an Associate Founder of Singularity University, and its Founding Track Chair for Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics. David has been described by Forbes as "New York's Archangel", by BusinessWeek as a "world conquering entrepreneur", by Crain's New York Business as "the father of angel investing in New York", and by Red Herring magazine as "patriarch of Silicon Alley". He is the New York Times bestselling author of both Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups and The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business.

From his initial involvement with the first online communities in the 1970s, through founding one of the first personal computer training companies in the 1980s, one of the first wireless data information networks in the 1990s, and the first global angel investing platform in the 2000s, David has been at the forefront of innovation in business and technology.

As an entrepreneurial executive himself, David is the founder and CEO of Gust, which operates the world's largest online platform and community for entrepreneurs and early stage investors. Gust is used by over a million entrepreneurs in 193 countries to connect with a majority of the world's organized angel investor networks. He is also Founder & CEO of USREM, the US Real Estate Market; Managing Director of Rose Tech Ventures; Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels; and Co-founder and Managing Director of the AREA Technology Accelerator.

David was the first investor and Chairman of the Board of JUMP Bikes, acquired by Uber; first investor and Chairman of the Board of Comixology, acquired by Amazon; and first investor and Chairman of the Board of Panjiva, acquired by S&P Global. He serves as a board director of KoolSpan and Moven.

David has been profiled by BusinessWeek as "The Pitch Coach" and is a regular speaker at the TED conference. His TEDtalk on How to Pitch a VC has been viewed over a million times. He has been named a Top Writer for five years in a row by Quora, where his ten thousand answers have garnered him over 50 million views and 100,000 followers. His writings have been featured in Inc. magazine, Huffington Post, Slate, the Wall Street Journal and Forbes. In addition to his continuing role on the faculty of Singularity University, David is a frequent lecturer at business schools including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, and UVA, and he was named Mentor of the Year by NYU's Stern School of Business.

Prior to founding AirMedia Corporation in 1988, for which he served as CEO for over ten years, his career included over fifteen years in real estate development, government, teaching and urban planning. David was co-founder and Chairman of The Computer Classroom and Vice President at Rose Associates, Inc. Earlier, he served as Deputy Director of the New York office of US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

A native New Yorker, David has a BA in Urban Affairs from Yale University, an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and a D. Eng. (hc) from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University and a member of the Entrepreneurship Advisory Boards of Columbia Business School and Yale University. David can be followed online @davidsrose.