David Mitchell

Mr. Mitchell earned a B.A. degree in Business with an emphasis on science in 1976 and an M.B.A. degree in 1978 from Baylor University. He is President of his family’s fifty-year-old oil and gas drilling and production company. The family business has interests in the Permian Basin of West Texas. In 1980 David, together with his father Fred Mitchell, founded and managed the Van Zoeren Pipe Organ Company of Portland, Oregon which manufactured and installed influential pipe organs including the instruments in the Crystal Cathedral, and 2nd Baptist Church, Houston, Texas. After financing and building the company from start-up to maturity, he and his father sold the Van Zoeren Pipe Organ Company to the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) television network in 1984.

David is also founder and C.E.O. of Designer Technologies, Inc., a product development and marketing company, and NeUventure on Wall Street, founded in 1999. David has spoken at university business schools, to both faculty and students, on the topic of the entrepreneurial spirit and the importance of the family business. He and his staff present investing seminars across the country every weekend through his NeUventure on Wall Street Seminar system, which currently serves over 13,000 students in 19 markets across the U.S. and is launching an international division in Ireland in 2016. David’s “The Word on Investing” daily radio program also runs five days a week in these 19 markets.

David has loved the space industry since his first grade teacher took his class across the street to her house to watch Alan Shepard go into space, May 5, 1961—the first American in space. Then, nine months later they marched back over to her house to watch John Glenn orbit the earth three times in February, 1962. He followed the Mercury, the Gemini, and the Apollo programs to the moon, and the Space Shuttle program. David's parents met captain of the Columbia, Rick Husband, and had lunch with him about one month before his death.

David Mitchell has a strong interest in keeping America number one in Space, and though he felt the de-funding of NASA by President Obama saddening, it presented an opportunity for the private sector to control the future of the commercial space flight industry.

In 2014 David became a co-founder, and President of Exos Aerospace, Inc. He and his family are providing for the capitalization and business management of the company.

David has broad experience in manufacturing, management, and organization/process development. All of this has equipped him to communicate his vision with strength and passion, and to bring it to reality through sound implementation and powerful team-building. David Mitchell’s vision is to win the private sector’s “commercial” space race.