David Mandel General Information

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Mr. David Mandel serves as the Managing Partner at Emerging Ventures. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at Platinum Group of Companies. He is the Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Top Finance Company. He serves as Board Observer at EventHub. He is an Angel Investor. Previously he served as Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at Alliance United Insurance. Prior to his current career in venture capital, Mr. Mandel built, operated and exited 4 different successful businesses in the Insurance and Finance industries over a 28-year period. Much of the success of these businesses is attributed to his logical systems thinking, aided by his technical training and advanced Mathematics and Computer Science education, which he used to create and evolve unique perspective and, and models for underwriting, pricing, risk selection, etc., while always taking a fresh outsider's approach to each venture. While Mr. Mandel has been a life-long investor, starting in 2014 he took a strong interest in the technology start-up ecosystem, and is now applying his thinking to this endeavor. Mr. Mandel is a very active angel investor. To date, he has invested in over 500 early-stage technology start-ups. He is an active member of several prominent angels groups, a frequent judge and panelist at start-up pitch events, and is considered a thought leader.