Meet the Team

David is a third generation Colorado native now living in Jackson Hole Wyoming. A +40 year world traveler, expedition leader, successful entrepreneur, and lifelong learner, David has a wealth of global expedition experience:

• Have visited most countries and most regions of the world.

• 1.5 years of solo backbacking in SE Asia, China, Japan including Lhasa, Tibet and circumnavigating the Taklamakan desert, several months at Zen monasteries in Kyoto, Japan, and 30 day Buddhist silence retreat in Thailand at Wat Suan Moke.

• 9 months Camper Van thru Western and Eastern Europe including Lofoton Islands and Northern Norway

• 9 months hitchhiking western, central, and southern Africa with wife.

• Filmed the Iditarod Dog Sled Race across over 1100 miles of Alaskan Arctic in 1995 and produced a one hour national TV program

• Brought 50 Japanese, 50 Americans, and 50 Russians on a pioneering First river ascent on Katun river Barnaul, Siberia

• Organized and produced several John Denver music events including an NHK (Japanese national TV) broadcast environmental event and  concert in Tokyo, Japan and evening event in Aspen Colorado.

• 6 months as Country Leader of the Chile phase of Operation Raleigh bringing over 100 young people for first expedition activities including

  • collecting ice cores from the calving San Rafael Glacier in central Chile

  • scientific support operations for Northern Patagonia ice field

  • personally led a First ever Expedition Route (and road survey) from Coyhaique to San Rafael Glacier.

  • Built fire lookouts and dock facilities as infrastructure for the Laguna San Rafael National Park.

  • Support for Doctors without Borders

• Producer and a key organizer of a 32 country “4th World White Water Championships” on the fast-flowing Choruh river in Eastern Turkey (also created an ESPN2 special)

• Organized and managed a humanitarian food effort that included bringing +6000 vehicles loaded with food to Haiti during the US embargo

• Organized a national newspaper campaign that led to more than ½ million donated used Japanese eyeglasses to Sri Lankan villages and various efforts to encourage education of young girls

• Lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan almost 3 years

• High impact Personal growth training programs for over 25,000 Japanese and Americans.

• 5 years of producing Japan National grant funded cross cultural programming for US Junior Highand and High School distance learning

• Filmed on location and produced Documentary on Harvard Negotiation Project and Roger Fisher (Getting to Yes).

  •  Israel/Palestine Conflict filmed at West Bank;

  • Greek Cyprus Turkish Cyprus Border filmed in No Man’s Land;

  • SouthAfrica/ANC filmed in South Africa

  • Government/FMLN guerilla leaders in El Salvador;

  • inner city Boston youth gangs in gang neighborhood.

• Family travel including over 100 scuba dives 3 kids thru high school – Costa Rica, Northern Thailand, Tioman Islands, Red Sea, Istanbul, Lake Champlain, Nova Scotia, France, Maldives,

• Ran with the Bulls, San Fermin Festival - at 65 years old (family and friends)

• Fishing at a Seychelles outer island (Alphonse)

• Peacock Bass, Arawana, Piranha in Brazilian Amazon

• Fishing Aripaima, Payara,Wolf Fish, and Pacu in Guyana

• Fishing Arctic Char, Tree River, NWT Canada above the Arctic Circle

• Fishing Zebra Trout, in the Pyrenees, Spain

• Fishing/Camping one month travel Iceland

• Extensive camping USA Colorado Rockies

• UTVs Glamis CA/Arizona and Moab Utah

• Various hunting/ sporting clays/ and target pistol events

• World wide and lots of small river Western USA – WY/ID/MT Fly/Conventional/Ice/SaltWater/and BlueWater fishing with my son Mac (+50 days a year last 3 years)  

In addition to pure personal purpose travel, adventure, expeditions and Bucket List travel -

David has over 25 years of M&A, investment Banking, former CEO and current Chairman of the Board for a major Aviation Equipment supplier. David mentors’ businesses and business owners at all levels from startups through family business under transition, to PE backed, to valuations of up to several Billion USD.

If you are a successful business owner seeking to add adventure and expeditions to your life – drop us your email, or call. If you are an adventurer seeking to succeed in the global business jungle – drop us your email, or call. Or if you are just seeking remote fishing or global logistics for adventure  – drop us your email, or call.

David and his son Mac would love to hear from you about your dreams and maybe share some of our thoughts or even build a trip of a lifetime together.