David S. Rose is one of the country’s most active early stage technology investors. He is the founder and Chairman of New York Angels, one of the country’s leading technology investment groups; Managing Principal of Rose Tech Ventures, specializing in highly scalable, Internet-based business; and Chairman of Egret Capital Partners, a middle market private equity firm. He founded and runs the SparkSpace technology incubator in New York’s Silicon Alley and serves as an expert consultant to corporations, not-for-profit institutions, venture capital funds and government agencies.

An Inc. 500 CEO heralded by Crain’s New York Business as a "Top Dog in Tech," he is well known in the technology community for discovering and mentoring high-potential entrepreneurs who are breaking new ground in technology-enabled businesses. He is a regular speaker at Yale, Harvard, Columbia and NYU business schools, and was a founding member of the New York New Media Association.

From his initial involvement with the first online communities in the 1970s, through founding one of the first personal computer training companies in the 1980s, one of the first wireless data information networks in the 1990s, and the first global angel investing platform in the 2000s, Mr. Rose has consistently been at the forefront of innovation in both business and technology. Among the fields in which he has been actively involved as an executive, board member or investor are: wireless communications, technology-enhanced real estate, consumer electronics, international finance, social networking, space tourism, user-generated content, robotic pets, online video, mobile network security, biological testing, electronic music, citizen journalism, out-of-home advertising, fiber-optic networking, concierge medicine, online marketing, interactive voice response, and many others.

Mr. Rose is Chairman and CEO of Angelsoft, which operates the international standard collaboration platform for early stage angel investing, and a member of the boards of directors of KoolSpan, Inc., CE Interactive, Panjiva, Pond5, Comixology and Magnify Networks. He also serves as an active early stage investor in companies including Ambient Devices, BioScale, DropIO, eJamming, Goodmail, Now Public, Mashery, Metaphor Solutions, Space Adventures, Storm Exchange, and over four dozen other early stage ventures.

A native New Yorker, Mr. Rose has a BA from Yale and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and is a graduate of the New York City public school system and Horace Mann High School. He is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University, a member of the Entrepreneurship Advisory Board of Columbia Business School, a Lifetime Professional Member of the World Future Society, and an Advisory Board member of the Liminal Group. He is profiled in Marquis Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in Business and Industry.

Enterprise Consulting

Enterprise Consulting builds a culture of mutual ownership, leadership and commitment to results across the organization.

Our unique processes unveil new points of differentiation which can create positive energy for change and recharge the culture with new ways of working together. Enterprise Coaching increases the organization's ability to drive the change process from within and to raise the Cultural & Brand IQ to standards of excellence that will ensure the company's leadership position in their industry.

Our clients learn how to construct a context for change during periods of growth and transition that intentionally creates a “shift” in the way people work together both inside and outside the company. Clients learn to break down silos, dissolve factions and cliques and reduce resistance.

The result is that leaders, employees, customers, and clients start to work together differently - territoriality shifts to collaboration; fear shifts to anticipation of what we're going to create together; there is a shift from a command and control environment to a co-creating environment.

Keynote Speaking

David S. Rose has spoken at events across the US and abroad, and have participated in events of all varieties: executive retreats, sales meetings, industry conferences, corporate training seminars, client appreciation dinners, and trade shows.

Liminal will work with you or your corporate event planner to insure that our speakers will captivate, motivate, engage, provoke and inspire any audience in order to create a memorable learning experience.

If desired, our Faculty will work with your team to customize a presentation tailored to your corporate culture, meeting themes, or leadership challenges.

Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching creates a framework for leadership effectiveness and help clients grow beyond their boundaries. Through executive coaching, clients gain insights to new possibilities and communicating more effectively. Clients learn to alter their perceptions in order to develop the skills needed to lay the tracks for success within the organization.

Coaching provides executives with the tools needed to cut through the clutter of their world in order to see and act more clearly and with greater purpose. As a result, they become more responsive to their own personal needs, the needs of those around them, and most importantly the needs of the organization. Our coaching practice focuses on numerous subsets of Executive Coaching, Organizational Coaching, Communications Coaching, and Innovation Coaching.

Private Workshops

Most organizations are facing unique challenges - threats in the marketplace, unsuspecting competitors, lack of resources, new competency requirements - all necessary to tackle for future success.

Customized workshops are designed to help your organization bridge the gap between aspirations and execution. Customized workshops are “defining moments” for organizations where leaders come face-to-face with the dynamics, obstacles, opportunities and possibilities for future success.

These highly interactive sessions open up new ways of working together to create the future. During the process, the executives' teams learn to understand each other's perspectives, share feelings and concerns, and open up to each other in new and deeply profound ways.

Our Faculty also perform assessments that can help executives gain insight into their culture, their competencies and their opportunities for growth. One of our most powerful assessment tools - The DNA Assessment - uses a sophisticated web-based assessment technology which is equipped to provide incredible lenses into the dynamics of your culture, your capabilities to handle challenges, and the levels of cooperation and collaboration that exist.

Our assessment tools may be customized to your organizational climate and business challenges. For companies interested in a more intimate program focused specifically on their needs, Liminal Group custom tailors group seminars and workshops on a variety of topics relevant to the transformation of individuals and organizations.

“David Rose is a master at turning presentations from before to after. I wish more of the start-ups I hear making presentations used his services! ”

Esther Dyson, Computer Industry Pundit

“A presentation training session with David S. Rose might well be the difference between a million dollar investment and "don't call us, we'll call you"! ”

Mike Zisman, Managing Director

Internet Capital Group

“There is palpable improvement in presentation technique exhibited by young ventures after David Rose gets through with them.”

Gideon Gartner, Founder

Gartner Group

“The pitches that I’ve seen at New York Angels are much more to the point and understandable because of David’s coaching. At the early screening sessions, I have to work hard to know what they’re saying. Once he’s finished with them, they know they’re trying to sell stock, not their product. This makes it better from an investor’s point of view…and the company’s.”

Howard L. Morgan, Partner

First Round Capital

“One of our companies had been through some prior presentation boot camps, but David Rose convinced them to make some major changes in their pitch. Since then they have gone on to attract significant investment interest, and along the way picked up many awards for their presentations. David’s input was definitely instrumental to this success!”

Stephanie Hanbury-Brown, Former Head of E-Commerce

JP Morgan

“Bad presentations kill great young companies. David has a knack for turning and tuning presentations and presenters to show them in the best light. ”

Scott Kurnit, Founder

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