David Schwab

Before his venture capital career, Dave had a 15-year operating background in engineering management at Lockheed Martin, sales management at Sun Microsystems and executive management at Scopus Technology. At Lockheed, his projects involved guidance and control systems for airplanes and satellites. At Sun he managed a local sales territory in Santa Clara, CA. After his tenure at Sun, he co-founded Scopus Technology, an IPO success story in the CRM space. Scopus was subsequently sold to Siebel Systems in a $500M transaction.

Dave started his venture career at Sierra Ventures where he helped build the Enterprise Software Practice. He also created and managed the CIO Advisory Board to a strength of 75 Fortune 500 CIOs in multiple vertical markets.

At Vertical Venture Partners his focus is vertical CRM, business intelligence applications, mobile, and university commercialization.

Dave currently serves on the boards of Amira, Concert Health, SOCi, and WhizAI.

Dave received his MBA from Harvard Business School, ENG from Stanford University, Aerospace Engineering (Thesis Topic: Control Systems for Large Space Structures), MS from Stanford University, Aerospace Engineering and BA from UC San Diego, Systems Science.