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<font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">David's intrest in entreprenuership started in high school when he co-founded a web-design startup. This early experience with starting a business was an invaluable learning experience.&nbsp;</span></font>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">In 2013 David co-founded a startup called&nbsp;</span>[http://divinarehealth.com Divnare Health]<font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">&nbsp;with a group of students at Michigan Technological University. Divinare focuses on driving healthy behavorial changes using data collected from a user's smartphone, wearable devices, and social media networks.</span></font> = <font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><big></big></span></font><span style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Leadership</span> =<div>David is passionate about growing as a leader. In 2010 David was accepted into the [http://pavlisinstitute.mtu.edu Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership.]&nbsp;The Pavlis Institute is a 25 credit leadership institute that focuses on empowering students with the neccesary tools to be succesful in a globalized socieity. The program culminates into a 5 week international experience where students travel to India, Ghana, or Malta unsupervised by Michigan Tech faculty / staff to implement and lead projects. <br/></div><div><br/></div><div>David has also served as the president for the Michigan Tech Student Union Board, as the PR Chair for Michigan Tech's student government, and in various other positions throughout the university. &nbsp;</div>= <span style="font-size:large;"><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><big>Entreprenuership at Michigan Technological University</big></span></font></span> = David could not be more excited to be partnering with the other University Innovation Fellows to catalyze postive change at Michigan Tech. Through the UIF program David is working on the following iniatives:&nbsp; #StartupTech: StartupTech is a business incubator David is propsing that would help bridge the gap between technical talent and students with ideas. The StartupTech draft is in its third revision and a budget is being drawn up to be presented to the University.&nbsp;#HackerBlock: The hacker block builds on an idea from the [http://azstarnet.com/business/local/tucson-techie-entrepreneurs-drop-anchor-at-pirate-mansion/article_f509c7ac-351e-5da8-8ee1-7693dc0fcd9a.html#.UwKW6cUV7cs.gmail University of Arizona]. The idea is in its infancies but the concept is to have a block in Houghton Michigan devoted to entreprenuers.&nbsp;  <div><br/></div>
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