David Martin

• Dr. Martin has publications in law, medicine, engineering, finance, and education.

• He maintains active research in the fields of linguistic genomics, fractal financial-risk modelling, and cellular membrane ionic signalling.

• He is the developer of several innovation-based quantitative indices of public equities and is the Founder of the Purple Bridge Funds.

• He managed the Innovation Alpha ETFs (NYSE:INAU; NYSE:INAG; and NYSE:TWAR). 

• David has worked with the United States Congress, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the United States Departments of the Treasury and Commerce, the European Union and many other countries.

• He also served as an advisor to numerous Central Banks, global economic forums, the World Bank and International Finance Corporation and national governments around the world.

• David is the Founding CEO of Mosaic Technologies, a company that developed and commercialized advanced computational linguistics technologies.

• He was also a Founding Member of Japan's Institute for Interface Science & Technology.

• He founded and served as Executive Director of the Charlottesville Venture Group. 

• David is a former Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia's School of Medicine, where he founded the University's first wholly-owned, for-profit, research and development, and technology-transfer corporation.

• His work has been the subject of two internationally awarded documentaries, Patent Wars which highlights his work on reform of the global innovation system and Future Dreaming: A Conversation with David Martin which is a dialogue about humanity and its optimal interaction in the universe.

• He has spoken at the United Nations General Assembly on citizen-led peacemaking initiatives and has been featured on Bloomberg television and HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. 

David E. Martin's Honors/Highlights

• Fellow of the Batten Institute, University of Virginia

• Board of Advisors, EU-India (AASTIK)

• Guild Member, Order of King Christian IV of Denmark

• Charlottesville Venture Group's Golden Angel Award

• Virginia Piedmont Technology Council's Spotlight Award

David E. Martin's Organizational Involvement

• Board Member, Research Institute for Small and Emerging Business (Washington D.C.)

• Board Member, Academy for Augmenting Grassroots Technological Innovations (India)

• Board Member, IST (Japan)

• Board Member, Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce (Virginia)

• Board Member, Charlottesville Industrial Development Agency (Virginia)

• Co-Chair, Australia Davos Connection (ADC)

• Founding Director, Melbourne’s Centre of Applied Innovation

• Chairman & CEO, eSurface®

• Constitutional & Economic Advisor, Autonomy Committee of East New Britain

• Constitutional & Economic Advisor, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea