David Dastva

Bio

David H. Dastvar has worked in Fortune 100 and 500 corporations as Consultant, Project Manager, Program Manager, and Executive Management. He has been involved in numerous multi-million dollar government procurements, IT Outsourcing, Technology Investment , and systems Integration Projects. He had P&L responsibilities for multi-million dollar government projects and Fortune 500 divisions. Mr. Dastvar managed technically diverse and matrix organizations using advanced management methodologies. He has also championed IR&D Projects for Department of Defense (DOD) and other government agencies. He was a member of Dr.Vinton Cerf's internet project team in MCI, transitioning Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) technology to MCI-Mail (e-mail) product. Mr. Dastvar has been involved in numerous start-up companies as strategist, member of board of directors, and venture capitalist. He has been instrumental in bringing application of e-commerce and e-government to companies and developing countries. Mr. Dastvar has extensive government and commercial business development and marketing experience in US and international markets. He has been involved with technology capacity building, ICT, and systems integration projects in US DoD (USAF, Army, National Guards, and JCS), Civilian Agencies (IRS, Treasury, DOS, VA, HUD, NIH and BLM), Middle East & North Africa (MENA) and Eurasia since early 80's. Mr. Dastvar has represented USA in ISO/OSI international standards for several years. Mr. Dastvar has worked for computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), MCI Communications, Litton PRC (a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation), and Verizon. He is member of the following professional bodies: 1. Member of Board of Director - Bahrain World Economic Summit 2. Chairman - AFCEA Information Committee 3. Chairman - Federal Agency Panel Committee 4. Chairman - NVTC – International Committee – Middle East Working Group 5. Chairman - The Systems Integration Forum 6. Executive Advisor, Management Committee, Wuxi Science & Education Industrial Park - China 7. Member - GWU SEAS National Advisory Council (NAC) 8. The George Washington University (GWU) - School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) - Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer and Commercialization (CET2C) He is a graduate of The George Washington University (GWU) School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS).

Career

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Innovest Group Inc Managing Partner Email: [email protected]