David Gardner, CEO, VenueGen
Mr. Gardner is a serial entrepreneur, technology investor and futurist. With a proven track record for early identification of paradigm-shifting technologies, Gardner has successfully built seven companies. He is a trusted advisor concerning new technology trends who believes the 3D web is on the verge of dramatically transforming many web-based business models as we know them today.
Experienced in taking IT products and Internet-service model companies to market, Mr. Gardner has served on several boards and is a popular conference speaker. He has successfully founded seven technology companies without a single failure of loss of an investors dollar. He has published over twenty forward thinking papers and articles on technical, business and managerial topics. He founded and launched PeopleClick, the first hosted “software as a service” enterprise application long before the SAS model was recognized as an software delivery method or best practice.
Mr. Gardner has also worked as a Vice President for Compuware, a multi-billion dollar corporation, after it acquired ProviderLink, a healthcare communications technology exchange Gardner founded.
Besides several years of computer science and business related post graduate studies at NCSU, Mr. Gardner also holds degrees in Music, Philosophy and Divinity.
Since 2007, Gardner has worked as the founder and CEO of VenueGen, a company dedicated to creating next-generation on-demand 3D platforms for online meetings and learning.
