David Chacon – Director of Investment Banking

David Chacon has over 15 years experience in sales, marketing, business development, finance and management. At the age of 27 he became senior-vice president of the world’s largest bank, Citigroup, perhaps its’ youngest. He was a vice-president at Credit Suisse.

David has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Business Week. David is the founder of Lightspeed Enterprises, a sales and business development advisory firm focused on communications, security, healthcare and environmental technology. He was an advisor and investor to a number of successful start-ups including Movaz (acquired for 53MM), Vivace Networks (sold for 135MM), Navini Networks(sold to CSCO for 330MM) and personal financial advisor to the principals at Cyrus (sold to Ciena for 2.6 billion). David was the President of Waterlink Systems, an innovative weather-based water conservation service. David was the VP of business development for Ecovation, a technology service which converts waste water into usable energy in the food and beverage industry, which was sold for 220MM. Recently, David served as strategic advisor in the capacity of VP of strategy and business Development for Altela Inc, a firm utilizing a break-through technology service to make the oil and gas industry cleaner.

David graduated from UCLA in 1994 and attended a Coopers & Lybrand program at the USC Graduate School of Accounting. David is a Prince of Whales Delegate and attended the University of Cambridge Business and the Environment Program. David serves as an advisory board member for the Apollo Alliance and on the national solutions council for the Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental “think and do” tank.