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Professional Biography

David S. Rose is an entrepreneurial executive and investor with extensive experience in high technology and communications, angel investments, finance and government. He was named by Inc. magazine to the 1998 Inc 500 list as CEO of one of the fastest growing private companies in America. Red Herring magazine has described him as "a patriarch of New York's Silicon Alley" and Crain's New York Business named him one of the City's top three angel investors and 25 most influential technology executives.

During the course of his career, Mr. Rose has supervised the creation of an intellectual property portfolio of issued patents appraised at over $100 million and negotiated both domestic and international corporate acquisitions. He was a prime author of the new data messaging protocols for the personal communications industry, and lectures frequently on issues relating to the development of the international information infrastructure.

In 1997 he was honored as a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the New York New Media category; in 1984, Time magazine profiled him in its "Computer as Man of the Year" issue; and he has been the subject of numerous interviews and articles in print and electronic media.

Mr. Rose is Founding Chairman of the Board of the New York Angels, Inc., the leading angel investment consortium in the New York region. Through his investment fund, Rose Tech Ventures, he provides capital and management expertise to promising early stage companies. On behalf of his own technology firms he has personally raised over $75 million in venture, strategic and institutional capital.

With over two decades of hands-on experience in founding, managing and funding diverse companies, Mr. Rose is actively involved in mentoring and advising other entrepreneurs and corporate executives. He was a Founding Member of the New York New Media Association and is a frequent guest speaker at graduate business schools including Harvard, Yale, Columbia and NYU. He is also a mentor and judge of the Yale, Columbia and NYU annual business plan competitions and has judged the annual Students in Free Enterprise national finals. As a regular lecturer for New York?s Industrial Technology Assistance Corporation he has taught the Venture Financing and Deal Negotiation section of the FasTrak Tech course since 1997.

Mr. Rose is Chairman of KoolSpan, a provider of innovative network security systems, and Chairman of Ambient Devices, the leading wireless 'bit-tricking' network. He is Chairman and CEO of Angelsoft, which operates the leading international platform for early stage private equity investing, and he serves as an active early stage investor in over three dozen companies, companies including Metaphor Solutions, Goodmail, BioScale, LinkStorm and Zero-G. 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.

Mr. Rose was co-founder and Chairman of The Computer Classroom, one of the world's first computer training firms, and spent over ten years developing technology-enhanced commercial and residential real estate in New York, Washington, DC and Boston with the firm of Rose Associates, Inc. Earlier, he served as Deputy Director of the New York office of US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In that position, Mr. Rose represented the Senator on multiple civic and public boards and was the Senator's Special Assistant for high technology and urban planning.

A native New Yorker, Mr. Rose has a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University Business School. He is a graduate of the New York City public school system and Horace Mann High School. He is profiled in Marquis Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in Science and Industry.

Investment Group Involvement

Astia, Virginia Active Angel Network, Washington Technology Center, Space Angels Network, CBS VC, Minority Angel Investor Network, Egret Capital, NYA Internet Week Pitch, NYAN - New York Angel Network, DEMO 2008, NYU Stern Entrepreneurs Challenge, New York Angels, Archangels, Greycroft Partners, TechAviv Angels, Rose Tech Ventures.

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Investment Interests

Business Products and Services, Computers and Peripherals, Consumer Products and Services, Education, Financial Services, Internet / Web Services, IT Services, Marketing / Advertising, Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Nanotechnology, Networking and Equipment, Software, Telecommunications, Travel:

Previous Positions

Board Member, Chief Executive Officer, VC Partner:

Functional Experience

Board Membership, International, Marketing and Advertising, Public Relations and Communications, Strategic Planning:

Industry Expertise

Business Products and Services, Computers and Peripherals, Consumer Products and Services, Education, Financial Services, Internet / Web Services, Mobile, Software, Telecommunications, Travel: