
share this page
About
David has been passionate about food since he went on a health retreat before starting college. As the CEO of Tovala, he’s been working to bring clean food, cooked fresh to homes across the country. In June of 2015, David graduated with his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. At Booth, David worked part-time for Foundation Capital, ran the Entrepreneurship club on campus and spent his summer interning at Google. Prior to Booth, David co-founded the mobile app Draftpedia - the first sports encyclopedia built exclusively for mobile. While it ultimately proved unsuccessful, it gave him a taste for technology and the startup ecosystem.His first taste for small business came before that, when he was responsible for running a bi-coastal chain of frozen yogurt stores. Before that, he spent two years working directly under the CEO of the Veggie Grill – the largest chain of vegan restaurants in the country.Company Spotlight in Tech

Call One Inc.
videos (3)
Chris Surdenik

Nexus A.I.
videos (1)
Phil Alexander

DefendEdge
videos (1)
Lewis Borsellino

Chicago Interactive Marketing Association (CIMA)
videos (1)
Eric Whobrey

Punchkick Interactive
videos (2)
Zak Dabbas

Rippleshot
videos (1)
Canh Tran

NOW Foods
videos (1)
Jim Emme

CityBase
videos (1)
Mike Duffy

UrbanBound
videos (1)
Michael Krasman

Strata Decision Technology
videos (1)
Dan Michelson

Envoy Global
videos (1)

Shift7 Digital
videos (1)
Andrew Walker

Clear Automation, LLC
videos (1)
John DeBlasio

uBack
videos (1)
Kaitlin Reimann

Reverb
videos (1)
David Kalt

Illinois Technology Association (ITA)
videos (2)
Julia Kanouse

InstruMMents Inc.
videos (1)
Mladen Barbaric

Narrative Science
videos (1)
Stuart Frankel

The LISA App, LLC
videos (1)
Robert Richmond

Phoenix Business Solutions
videos (1)
Peggy Hrindak

First Communications
videos (1)
Margi Shaw

Truss Holdings, Inc.
videos (1)
Bobby Goodman

VineSprout Public Relations
videos (1)
Ben Pavlovic

eComfort.com
videos (1)
Pavel Sokolovsky

Chicago Innovation Exchange
videos (1)
John Flavin

Braviant Holdings
videos (1)
Stephanie Klein

Vertex Software
videos (1)
Dan Murray

Goby
videos (1)
Helee Lev

Brain.fm
videos (1)
Daniel Clark

Specifix
videos (1)

Forte Group
videos (2)
Steve Kreynin

Lightstream
videos (2)
Stu Grubbs

Jiobit
videos (2)
Chris Houghton

RightHand Technologies
videos (1)
Steve Valentor

Sentact
videos (1)
Chris Dube

Future Founders
videos (1)
Scott Issen

Signature Retail Services
videos (1)
Dan Perry

onShore Security
videos (1)
Stel Valavanis

Fooda
videos (1)
Orazio Buzza

Gympass
videos (1)
Sean Flynn

HigherGround Managed Services
videos (1)
Brian Brammeier

Savoir
videos (1)
Shatabdi Basu

Helix
AAron Dannenbring

Cleverbridge
videos (1)
Craig Vodnik

INXPO
videos (1)
Malcolm Lotzof

physIQ
videos (1)
Gary Conkright

Antenna International
videos (1)
Dave Falter

Edovo
videos (1)
Brian Hill

Call One Inc.
videos (3)
Chris Surdenik

Nexus A.I.
videos (1)
Phil Alexander

DefendEdge
videos (1)
Lewis Borsellino

Chicago Interactive Marketing Association (CIMA)
videos (1)
Eric Whobrey

Punchkick Interactive
videos (2)
Zak Dabbas

Rippleshot
videos (1)
Canh Tran

NOW Foods
videos (1)
Jim Emme

CityBase
videos (1)
Mike Duffy

UrbanBound
videos (1)
Michael Krasman

Strata Decision Technology
videos (1)
Dan Michelson

Envoy Global
videos (1)

Shift7 Digital
videos (1)
Andrew Walker