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Looking for a community with a professional focus grounded in Catholic values? Your 20s and 30s can be a confusing and lonely time, but they don't have to be. Come and see.
Attend a YCP event and join like-minded, mission-driven peers to find God in all things and seek excellence and joy in every area of your life.
YCP brings together young workers and seasoned business professionals in a variety of programs to foster Catholic identity, encourage community, and inspire action.
The Executive Speaker Series is a free event open to the public in which executives share their career and faith journeys with young professionals, challenging them to "Work in Witness for Christ."
Attendees enjoy complimentary drinks and appetizers and have a chance to socialize before and after the evening's presentation.
Schedule
- 7:00 PM - Doors Open + Networking
- 7:45 PM - President's Remarks and Prayer
- 7:50 PM - Executive Speaker Address
- 8:15 PM - Q + A Session
- 8:25 PM - Closing + Prayer
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Come belong to the nation's largest young professional Catholic network. Together we'll learn to live and share our Catholic faith through our daily work. Access member-exclusive events and more!
David is an experienced entrepreneur and M&A advisor with over two decades of working with small to middle-market private companies. He founded Emerge Dynamics, a business value growth advisory company, and serves as CFO for a large family-owned portfolio of companies. He has also led numerous strategic planning, M&A valuation, financial analysis, and CFO engagements. With a background in entrepreneurial projects, aeronautical engineering, and investment banking, his diverse career is tied together by the unifying theme of identifying opportunities where others see problems and wrapping strategies of success around them.
He facilitates the financial modules of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program, has taught economics courses at both Tulane University and Delgado Community College, and has taught a Mergers and Acquisitions course at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. David holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University, an M.A. in Economics from University of Texas at Arlington, an M.B.A. from Tulane University, and the Certified Turnaround Analyst (CTA) and Certified Merger and Acquisition Advisor (CM&AA) designations.
He resides in Tampa with his wife and five children. He enjoys flying, sailing, hiking, visiting and learning from foreign cultures, and being an advocate for those discovering how a calling to business can lead to a fulfilling vocation of improving our world.
