David oversees the Domains business at Tucows, including wholesale (OpenSRS and Enom), retail (Hover), the premium domain portfolio and our NameJet joint venture.
He joined Tucows in 2000 after thirteen years at IBM and, over the past 20 years, has helped build Tucows’ sales, marketing, business development, product management and technical support capabilities.
He has also built a small fortune in frequent flyer miles, traveling several times around the world to meet with clients and partners, manage a global sales team and attend industry conferences. He led the acquisition and integration of EPAG (in Bonn, Germany), the Melbourne IT international reseller business, Enom and most recently, Ascio. He has has worked with domain name registries on six continents to help Tucows build the largest reseller channel in the world and a massive offering of nearly 250 country code TLDs and over 350 generic TLDs.
David is grateful for the fascinating places he has visited and all the inspiring entrepreneurs and professionals he has met and supported. He is happiest when his clients are happy, an ethic effectively instilled in him by his wife and two daughters.
David holds an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.
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