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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!

  • 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

  • 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.

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