David has been helping clients navigate turbulent financial markets since 2000. Prior to serving clients at RBC Wealth Management, he was a branch manager and financial advisor at a global wealth management firm.
David helps families, businesses and nonprofit organizations implement and maintain wealth planning, protection and transfer strategies.
David is a past chairman of the South Dakota Investment Council, one of the top public pension plans in the country that managed nearly $13 billion for 77,000 current and past South Dakota public employees. He has been recognized as one of the Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors in 2023 and 2024. David has been branch director for the Rapid City office since 2009 and a frequent regional and national firm strategy forum speaker. He passed the Series 7, 9, 10 and 66 exams and holds life and health insurance licenses.
David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in political science with merit from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was second in command of the Brigade of Midshipmen and earned the Draper L. Kauffman Leadership Award. He was a naval aviator and served as a mine countermeasures tactics instructor.
David and his wife, Carla, have six children and eight grandchildren. They are members of World Vision’s National Leadership Council, working to end extreme global poverty. He is past president of the Rapid City Economic Development Partnership and past president of Working Against Violence, Inc.
When not at work, he enjoys kite surfing, mountain biking and flying. He and Carla have two non-shedding hypoallergenic dogs, Hudson and Murphy. Hudson is an Australian Labradoodle who will fetch tennis balls until he collapses, and Murphy is a Mini-Bernedoodle and the newest and cutest addition to the family.
