Dave McClure has worked in the high-tech industry for over fifteen years. Dave is actively engaged in promoting microfinance awareness and involvement through the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network. He is also a member of the Full Circle Fund, a San Francisco-based non-profit formed by SF Bay Area entrepreneurs addressing local issues in affordable housing, education, and technology access.

After graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 1988, Dave worked as a programmer and database consultant for several Silicon Valley companies, including Intel and Microsoft. In 1994, Dave started Aslan Computing, an Internet and e-commerce consulting firm, which was later acquired by Servinet / Panurgy in 1998. Dave has also helped develop and bring to market a variety of Internet and e-commerce businesses and continues to be an active advisor and angel investor in several new startups including Feedster, HealthUnity and WellFund. From 2001 to 2004, Dave was director of marketing for PayPal Developer Network program. In January 2005, Dave joined SimplyHired.com as their director of marketing. SimplyHired.com is a “vertical search” startup which runs the world’s largest search engine for jobs. SimplyHired was named by Time Magazine as one the Top 50 Coolest Web sites for 2005. Dave is also founder and co-chair for the SDForum Search SIG, a technology user group covering emerging topics in the internet search industry.

Unitus: Unitus is a global microfinance accelerator that acts as a social venture capital investor for the microfinance industry. Unitus identifies the highest-potential microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries and helps accelerate their growth through capital investments and capacity-building consulting, thus empowering them to help exponentially more poor people worldwide. In doing so, Unitus aims to demonstrate that MFIs can be run as profitable, large-scale, poverty-focused businesses with links to local capital markets. As of March 2006, Unitus had eight MFI Partners worldwide serving more than 540,000 poor clients. Based in Redmond, Wash., USA, and with an office in Bangalore, India, Unitus relies on innovative financial instruments and the financial resources of like-minded individuals and foundations to fulfill its mission. Unitus received the 2006 Fast Company / Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award for taking an innovative, entrepreneurial, business-minded approach to alleviating global poverty.
http://www.unitus.com