David Nierenberg

David Nierenberg is the founder of The D3 Family Funds and a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College and a graduate of Yale Law School. He brings several complementary disciplines: lawyer, strategic management consultant, corporate director, asset allocator and venture capitalist. David worked for seven years and was a partner at consulting firm Bain & Company. He has been a full-time investor since 1985, 10 as a venture capitalist, principally with Trinity Ventures, and for over two decades at D3. He serves on the Washington State Investment Board, which oversees public employee retirement funds; chairs the board investment committee for Whitman College; and serves on the board of Rosetta Stone Inc. and formerly served on the boards of Electro Scientific Industries and RadiSys Corporation, all three of which are D3 portfolio companies. From 2008–2012 he chaired the advisory board of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management and from 2012 to present has served as vice chair of the advisory board of the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School.