Bio
Entrepreneur, technologist, and recovering New Yorker in the Green Mountains.
I was born and raised in Metro Detroit. Go Lions. Go Blue. After the University of Michigan, where I earned a BSE in Computer Engineering and built the first website I ever made, I moved to New York City, and that set the stage for the rest of my life.
I started my career in Information Security at Goldman Sachs, where I wrote one of the firm's first web-logging programs. (I can confirm that most of those early web visits were clearly not work-related.) From there I joined InterWorld, an early enterprise e-commerce company, and a casualty of the dot-com crash. I went on to run an ISP called way.com and to found Clubplanet.com, the first online nightlife guide and guestlist service for New York's clubs. That grew into a family of businesses (NewYears.com, Track Entertainment, Wantickets, Cool Junkie) and, eventually, a top-five US ticketing platform.
After fourteen-plus years of living and working in the city, I moved to Buenos Airesfor “a year,” to experience a different culture, learn Spanish, and live on my savings. Eight years, a wife, and two kids later, I moved to Killington, Vermont. (Pre-Covid, so either I'm smart or just lucky.)
In Killington I've spent years in the short-term rental business, managing my own and others' properties and using technology to maximize revenue for owners while elevating the guest experience. That work became Simple, Inc., the boutique management company I run as President. I've owned a Vermont inn, I serve on the Vermont Short Term Rental Alliance and Mountain Green Condos boards, and I sit on the Town of Killington Planning Commission, in my free time.
Today, the through-line of three decades in technology has converged on eiq2, based in Moorestown, New Jersey, where I'm co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. We're building sovereign data infrastructure for regulated markets: the rights-aware layer that lets data move through the economy with its proof, consent, and provenance intact. The full professional record lives at McComb, Inc.
A few things, for the record
Most of these were written years ago and lightly dusted off. I don't usually write about myself in the third person, and I don't update this site nearly often enough.
- 01The founder of Google once slept on my couch in New York City. He has not yet responded to the bill I sent for the stay.
- 02I founded Clubplanet.com as a way to avoid standing in line to get into clubs. It worked.
- 03I was one of the first 20 people at InterWorld and was promised we'd all be sailing around NYC on our own yachts. That never quite happened.
- 04I've been to Burning Man, and I plan to go back. One of the best experiences of my life, before becoming a father.
- 05I started writing my name with a capital “V” (DaVe) during an internship at BNR, working alongside several other Daves. It stuck in my email signature. It's pronounced exactly like Dave.
- 06I'm an unrepentant bargain hunter. Sometimes I'll spend more time finding the deal than the deal is worth.
- 07I have been to four of the seven continents. Three to go.