Steering Committee Member

David Holly

Senior Business Development Executive

David Holly is a Senior Business Development Executive with over 25 years of experience in the public and private sectors. Additionally, he has worked with several entrepreneurial ventures to commercialize innovations and technologies in the financial services, healthcare, and information services industries.

David’s an implementation specialist that works collaboratively with founders, investors, and corporate venture teams to design and manage a commercial program office to provide the essential building blocks for new venture success related to product/service delivery, client acquisition, and capital funding.

David obtained his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Northwestern University and his Bachelors of Science degree in Finance from DePaul University.

In 2009, David founded Triunity Inc., a Consulting and Management Services Company, to pursue his passion for strategy, business model design, and entrepreneurial ventures. As President and CEO of Triunity Inc., he worked with a wide range of clients to design and implement strategies and programs that enhance service delivery, revenue generation and returns on technology investments. Recognizing the need to grow beyond the single consulting and advisory services model, David partnered with Quadrant Management Consulting, a Management Services Company specializing in technology and IP commercialization. At Quadrant, he manages a portfolio of clients and venture partner relationships. He’s the founder of Centric Learning Solutions LLC, an eLearning portfolio company featuring innovative online education and collaboration technology.

David served as a Managing Principal at EKI-Digital, a Chicago-based mid-tier technology consulting firm. At EKI-Digital, he managed large enterprise IT initiatives in the public sector. He was responsible for implementing a project management office, identifying IT talent to staff, managing software and application delivery across a diverse vendor portfolio. David excels at managing stakeholder relationships, setting leadership expectations, and achieving project time and budget objectives. In this capacity, he generated over $20MM in new business over three years by engineered deals for IT Outsourcing, Enterprise Program Management Offices, and Technology Consulting. Before joining EKI, David was a Vice President/General Manager at ADP in the Dealer Services Division. He was responsible for a strategic initiative focused on developing a market for payroll and HR services in the automotive dealer channel. In this capacity, he was instrumental in structuring inter company deals that leveraged ADP Employee Services Division’s existing product and services capabilities. David’s efforts resulted in new business revenues of $5MM per annum with existing clients of the Dealer Services Division.

Before ADP, David was Vice President and COO for Aon Data Solutions (ADS), a strategic venture focused on providing outsourced data integration and business intelligence to Aon’s institutional clients. In this role, he successfully negotiated the divesture of the ADS business to ADP Corporation by engineering a deal to have ADS partner with ADP to win a multi-million contract with a local government entity to provide data integration and management services.

David spent most of his career in the financial services industry with JP Morgan Chase, formerly Bank One Corporation. During a successful 17-year career, he acquired a broad base of experience while serving in various roles ranging from foreign exchange trading to managing eBusiness development. David developed a reputation as a “corporate intrapreneur” through a series of leadership roles with several successful upstart business initiatives.

He was a pioneer in establishing the first institutional marketing department in the Corporate Bank. After the First Chicago and Bank One merger, he was assigned to build and manage its institutional marketing and training function for the Treasury Services Group, a $1.5 billion revenue division. He left his marketing role in the Treasury Services Group to create and lead an eBusiness development team to leverage rapidly emerging eCommerce technologies that were changing the landscape of the financial services industry. In this capacity, he successfully engineered deals to acquire and deploy eCommerce technologies and business models around the bank’s established Government, Mid, and Large Corporate, institutional client segments.

David Holly

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