David Dodson

About

David’s first job out of business school was working for Professor Irv Grousbeck, and his first task was to create the initial case material for the first two search funds. An entrepreneur at heart (in high school, he imported jewelry from India and sold it door-to-door), it was obvious what to do next—raise the third search fund. While he spent the next decade as an operator of five companies, he was also quick to give back when he was in a position to do so, serving as a director of many early search fund companies including Asurion (Kevin Taweel and Jim Ellis), Continental Fire & Safety (Jim Southern), and Carillon Assisted Living (Karen Moriarty and Ken Kirkham). Along with his friends Irv Grousbeck, Peter Kelly, and Jim Ellis, at Stanford, he helped create the first course on search fund—and he continues to teach the next generation of search fund entrepreneurs at Stanford and is a regular resource at Harvard Business School.

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