Dave Schappell
Investor
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
High Growth Leadership Coaching
2021 - Current
I provide executive coaching and strategic consulting to founder CEOs and leaders experiencing hypergrowth in their businesses.
Investor and Advisor
2010
- Mentor at several accelerators, including Techstars, 500 Startups, Seedcamp and others - Advise companies: fund raising, business development, product development, marketing and growth - Investor in early-stage startups
Advisor
2019
Advisor at Money Group (fka Ad Practitioners, ConsumersAdvocate.org, Money.com and others)
Investor and Board Advisor
2018
Working with my Wharton classmate and Amazon colleague Jason Shaw and his brother Dana Shaw to help build Breslow Home Design Center (the 95 year old company that MyPerfectColor.com grew out of). Breslow is a 3rd generation family run business providing window treatments, awnings and paint solutions in northern New Jersey and New York City.
Investor and Board Advisor
2018
Working with my Wharton classmate and Amazon colleague Jason Shaw to help build MyPerfectColor.com -- we're building the leader in exact match color/paint solutions for industry. He's been building MyPerfectColor for 10+ years, and we think it's poised for massive growth. I'm looking forward to playing my part. Onward!
MyPerfectColor is a retail company that provides custom color spray paint and touch-up solutions for businesses and consumers.
Podcaster
2021 - 2021
The Invent Like An Owner podcast featured interviews with the Folks who Built Amazon
Advisor
2017 - 2019
Advisor at Ad Practitioners (parent company to Money.com, ConsumersAdvocate.org, and others)
Advisor
2017 - 2018
Advisor and Investor
2013 - 2018
Skilljar is a customer training platform for enterprises to accelerate product adoption and improve customer retention.
Raised $53,218,000.00 from Insight Partners, Mayfield Fund, Shasta Ventures and Trilogy Equity Partners.
Director, Startup Business Development, EMEA
2016 - 2016
I managed the AWS Startup BD team across EMEA, working with VCs, Accelerators and Startup Organizations to assist their portfolio companies with access to AWS and Amazon opportunities. Check out the AWS Activate program at http://aws.amazon.com/activate
Director, Startup Business Development
2012 - 2016
I worked to make AWS even more accessible to early stage (pre-VC/accelerator/incubator) startups and entrepreneurs.
Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.