David Blundin

David Blundin is the founder of Link Ventures. He is also the former CEO of Vestmark, Inc. Previously, David was Chief Technologist at Vignette Corporation which has over 1,000 enterprise customers including seven of the top ten firms in the Financial Services sector. Prior to Vignette, David was the founder, CEO and Chairman of DataSage, Inc. DataSage was acquired by Vignette in a half-billion dollar transaction in January of 2000. DataSage's software enabled businesses to centrally capture and analyze all of their electronic interactions - often involving terabytes of information - and use that information to personalize interactions with customers. In 1998 and 1999 DataSage was selected to the DataWarehouse 100. In 1999 DataSage received a DM Review World Class Solution Award and was selected to Computerworld's 100 Emerging Companies to Watch. Prior to 1997, David was the President and CEO of Cirrus Recognition Systems, a data mining software company. Previously, he was among the first ten employees at MicroStrategy and, subsequently, served on Microstrategy's board of directors in 2003 and 2004. David received a BS in Computer Science degree from MIT where he researched neural network technology at the AI lab. He serves on the boards of several high-tech start-ups and is also a co-founding board member of a hedge fund that employs data mining techniques.