Founder and former CEO of AnchorFree Inc., David has been profiled among America's Most Promising CEO's by Forbes, selected by Inc magazine among the top 30 CEO's Under 30 years old, profiled by Fortune and the New York Times, nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and named one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs.
David built AnchorFree into a global leader in consumer privacy, security, and Internet Freedom with more than 650 million users downloading AnchorFree's Hotspot Shield app globally. AnchorFree played a role in some of the world's most important events protecting millions of people from security and privacy breaches and disrupting censorship. AnchorFree has been selected by Forbes among America's Most Promising Companies and among the Most Important Security Start-ups by Business Insider. FastCompany named AnchorFree as the world's most innovative security company. David raised $63M from Goldman Sachs and other investors, before selling controlling interest in the Company for $310M.
David is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board at GlobeIn, a marketplace with a mission to connect a billion people to the global economy that has already created thousands of jobs in emerging markets: https://globein.com/2019-impact-report.
In 2012 David co-created and funded the #ChicagoGirl documentary which won the Amnesty International Award and awards at the Amsterdam & Berlin film festivals (the movie is about a 19 year old Syrian girl from Chicago using technology to play a role in the Syrian revolution).
David met with the US Supreme Court Justices as part of being selected for an award with the Academy of Achievement and later with three former US Secretaries of State: Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Henry Kissinger.