David Springate, a board member of the FEI Dallas Chapter, is a finance professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. He earned a doctorate in corporate finance from the Harvard Business School and an MBA from Western University in Canada. David’s academic interests include private equity finance, valuation, and the finance of innovation. He has testified on economic incentives to a committee of the Canadian Parliament. In addition to published research papers, he has authored 28 published teaching cases, many of which have been reprinted in textbooks.
David is the co-founder and current director of the UT Dallas Center for Finance Strategy and Innovation, the founding dean of its executive education programs, and the founding director of its Executive MBA Program. He now serves as academic director. Formerly on the faculties of IMD in Switzerland and SMU, he is a past president of the Dallas Chapter. Earlier, he served as an air force officer, as an investment manager in Geneva and Dallas, and as the chairman of a luxury car dealership.