Recent Leadership
Chief Product Officer, Intellio, Inc - intelliolabs.com
Investor Relations Officer, JVC Holdings - jvcpayments.com
CEO & Founder, Maya PBC - NAITUR.ai
Co-founder & Director, Unlimited Sciences (Non-profit)
Co-founder & CPO, Baker Technologies (Acquired)
Accomplishments
Five-Time Serial Entrepreneur With $250MM Exit & Public Listing - Baker Technologies
Fundraising Experience Across 12 Financing Rounds Up To $120MM
M&A Experience Up To $1.45Bn Market Valuation - TILT Holdings
Mental Healthcare Revolutionist - Maya Health
Nominated As “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Microdose Community.
Nonprofit Research Philanthropist - Unlimited Sciences
Co-leader of the First US Psilocybin Ballot Initiative - Denver Psilocybin Initiative
Architect & Contributor to the Ground Zero Masterplan - Studio Daniel Libeskind
Summa cum Laude with First Class Honors in Architecture - University Of Cambridge
NGO Founder, Funding Construction for Schools in Kenya - ZAA Create
Loving Husband and Father, Designer, Technologist, Painter, Pianist, and Athlete
Professional Summary
Serial entrepreneur and product leader with 15 years startup experience. Co-founded Baker Technologies (CPO), a SaaS platform that grew to 1,300+ business clients, 50% market share, and a $250M exit in 2019.
Currently leading Go-To-Market and Investor Relations at JVC Network, a closed-loop credit network for alternative medicines, which unlocks financial access and affordability for wellness products and services in regulated markets.
Summa cum laude in Architecture, Cambridge University. Youngest architect on the Ground Zero Masterplan by Studio Daniel Libeskind. Started ZAA!, a nonprofit to help Kenyan children access primary education. Brought up in Papua New Guinea, Portugal and Scotland, and with the elephants in Kenya.
Background
Brought up in Papua New Guinea, Portugal and Scotland, David was a pianist, top marksman, ski racer, and oil painter, graduating top of his class from George Watsons Academy. His late mother, Felicity Champion graduated summa cum laude as a mature student in Hospitality Management and Viniculture from Napier University, and his sister Nathalia Gjersoe PhD is a professor of Developmental Psychology at University of Bath.
In 2005, David migrated to the Mualuganje Elephant Sanctuary in the Shimba Hills, Kenya, where they formed a nonprofit, ZAA Create, to fund uniforms and books for children in the community.
At age 22, David was invited to begin his career in New York City with Studio Daniel Libeskind. As the youngest in a 7-person team designing the World Trade Center (Ground Zero) Masterplan — an opportunity generously presented to him by David and Daniel’s shared tutor, Dalibor Vesely; a Czech-born historian and theorist promoting the role of hermeneutics and phenomenology in architecture.
David’s personal interests include: philosophy, psychology, geo-politics, artificial intelligence, oil painting, classical and blues piano, snow sports, kite surfing, sailing, SCUBA diving, community leadership, and mindfulness. Above all, he is devoted to refining his skillfulness in being a fruitional husband to Lana Blum, and evolutionary father to Savana Bloom Champion.
Education
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Master of Arts, Architecture
Summa cum Laude, 2009
Skills
Executive & Product Leadership
Agile Methodology (10+ yrs)
Cross-functional Operations
Salesforce / HubSpot / Pipedrive
AI Strategy & Implementation
Codex / Claude Code / Coder
Linear / JIRA / Confluence / Pivotal
Financial Modeling & Fundraising
Airtable / Notion / Excel
Strategic Negotiation & Partnerships
Make / N8N / Zapier
UX/UI & Brand System Design
AWS / GCP / Workspace
