Dave is CRSP’s first non-academic director and has served as its leader since 1998. Under his tenure, CRSP has expanded its product base beyond historic financial databases and academic indexes with the introduction of investible indexes in 2012. CRSP’s research client base now includes approximately 500 academic institutions and 100 commercial and governmental entities in over 35 countries. CRSP investible indexes and related data are now licensed to Vanguard for 31 of their domestic funds and for Personalized Indexing, and to a significant list of broker dealers and proprietary traders to support market-making activities, and to consultants and institutions using them for consulting and to fund managers for research and to benchmark investment performance. At this time, Vanguard has over $2 trillion invested tracking CRSP indexes. CRSP has also provided research databases on the U.S. equites markets, extending back to 1929, since the early 60’s, to over 600 domestic and international academic and research clients. On January 1, 2020, CRSP officially became a limited liability company. Center for Research in Security Prices, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Chicago.

Dave previously served as an Executive Vice President at Heitman Financial, Ltd and held official positions at Harris Bank and the Northern Trust Company.

Dave earned his MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (now Chicago Booth) in 1970 and received his BS in Physics from Stanford University. Outside of CRSP, he is CEO of two family agribusinesses that raise corn and soybeans and he collects antique automobiles.