David Liniado

ACES Yachting is an invite-only luxury yachting brand offering yacht co-ownership and membership access to a fleet of world-class super yachts. Our mission is to provide an unparalleled yachting experience that caters to the discerning tastes of our owners & members as we reimagine yachting.

I’m the co-founder at a venture advisory firm built for the now. We partner with clients to identify, develop and capture big disruptive opportunities. Our specialized teams provide insight, strategy, operational excellence and creativity to move ideas from the whiteboard to the marketplace and everything in between. With offices in Atlanta and San Francisco we are entrepreneurs and seasoned executives who’ve built businesses, answered to shareholders and consistently delivered results. We work with some of the most innovative companies in their respective industries including Novelis, Getaround, Singer Vehicle Design, Prologis, Hevo, Actasys and a number of other high growth companies. Our specialties are: Venture Growth Strategy & Activation Market Analysis Venture Scouting Advisory Board activation Fundraising Financial structuring

We launched Armus to protect the environment and make materials more resistant to the environments they battle on a daily basis. The Armus team has protected the City Hall of Atlanta, the Atlanta Braves stadium, Bennington boats, and the reefer trailers that deliver our food and solar panels that make our natural energy. Check out our site for our many projects and let's do a call! I can assure you we have a product to protect something you touch, drive or build!

Venture Capital focusing on mobility technologies, advisor to select portfolio companies and member of leadership team

As an Advisor to DRIVE, I help to facilitate successful collaborations between cutting edge Israeli startups and global corporations, by selecting and mentoring for each specific company. DRIVE TLV is a unique innovation hub focused on smart mobility. We collaborate with eight powerful leaders in the automotive industry: Mayer Group, Honda, Volvo Cars, Volvo Group, Cox Automotive, Ituran, NEC, Hertz. Our partners rely on us to bring top emerging technologies to their doorstep - and even tailor solutions to their particular needs. DRIVE TLV offers a collaborative workspace, numerous opportunities for ecosystem exposure, as well as a unique commercialization program, FastLane. The program offers bilateral support to both startups and corporates, in an effort to effectively facilitate a successful collaboration. Since the conception of FastLane three years ago, with five batches of startups all ranging in focus within the smart mobility domain, the 40 selected startups have raised a total of over $500M, leading to over 25 ongoing commercial collaborations between our partners & startups, and one exit.

At SWFT we’re designing personal electric transportation for every journey, no matter who you are or where you’re going, all at accessible prices. Built with top-grade materials, the latest technology, and styles that inspire, our range of e-bikes and e-moped are also just better for the planet. More bikes on the road means reduced carbon emissions and a world full of happier humans. The future is electric and we invite you to take charge.

Lead the consumer mobility efforts across Cox Automotive that include our partnerships, venture investments and incubated businesses that enable new mobility options. This includes ride sharing, car sharing (www.getaround.com), alternatives to ownership, subscription models (www.flexdrive.com), and new form retailers that are providing consumers access ownership.

Working with the Cox Automotive Strategy Group on developing ideas into new ventures within the automotive sector.

iZigg currently connects millions of consumers each month with their favorite brands from Monster Energy to Papa Johns Pizza through our 90210 short code.

Developed from a text messaging platform used by some of the largest schools in the country from UF to UT-Austin while at the same time delivering students deals on their mobile phones.

Joining a fellow Babson classmate we developed Everon into one of the leading providers of outsourced technology support for small to mid sized businesses nationwide. Everon was sold to PlumChoice in late 2010.