Dave Zaret

Dave Zaret founded Symphono in 2002 and is an industry leader in financial collaboration technology. In the 10 years since Symphono started, Dave has created a team with deep expertise in collaboration services and financial services technology generally and has built the company into a strong and growing presence in those markets.

He started his career at Swiss Bank/O’Connor in Chicago, developing real-time arbitrage and risk management systems and soon led the firm in developing and evangelizing uses of emerging technologies. One of the solutions to emerge under Dave's leadership was a collaboration platform which was widely adopted, both inside UBS and among its buy-side clients. That technology ultimately transferred to a newly formed company, Parlano, of which Dave became the CTO. The core technology he developed at Parlano was ultimately acquired by Microsoft and became the group chat module inside Microsoft Lync.

Dave holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan.