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Biographies: David S. Rose

David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and early stage venture investor described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering entrepreneur”, by Crain’s New York Business as “the father of angel investing in New York”, and by Red Herring magazine as “patriarch of Silicon Alley”. He is an Associate Founder of Singularity University and its Track Chair for Finance and Entrepreneurship.

From his initial involvement with the first online communities in the 1970s, through founding one of the first personal computer training companies in the 1980s, one of the first wireless data information networks in the 1990s, and the first global business angel investing platform in the 2000s, he has been an innovator in both business and technology.

Mr. Rose is the founder and Chairman of New York Angels, the largest and most active business angel investment consortium on the East Coast; Chairman of Egret Capital Partners, a middle market private equity firm; and runs New York’s SparkPlace business technology incubator. As an entrepreneur he is the founder and CEO of Angelsoft, which operates the international standard collaboration platform for startup financing.

Among the fields in which Mr. Rose has been actively involved as an executive, board member or early stage investor are: wireless communications, real estate and construction, consumer electronics, finance, social networking, space-related tourism and entertainment, user-generated content, robotic pets, online video, mobile network security, biological testing, electronic music, citizen journalism, out-of-home advertising, fiber-optic networking, concierge medicine, online marketing, interactive voice response, and many others.

A native New Yorker, Mr. Rose has a BA in Urban Affairs from Yale University and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School. He is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University, a member of the Entrepreneurship Advisory Board of Columbia Business School, and a Lifetime Professional Member of the World Future Society.