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David Rosenheim

Senior Executive Coach
Goodstone Group LLC
San Francisco, CA Bay Area
Email:    dr********@************up.com
Phone:  (415) 680-0707

Education and Professional Affiliations
  • Language and culture studies, Université de Paris, La Sorbonne
  • A., English, San Francisco State University, Cum Laude
  • B.A., Said Business School, University of Oxford, Overall Distinction
  • Certified Professional Coach in Integral Coaching ®, New Ventures West
  • Hogan Assessments Certification
Board Director Experience
  • Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), 2011-present
  • Carbon Disclosure Standards Board, 2012-2017
  • City of Pacifica Climate Change Task Force, 2010-2011
  • Fan Centric, LLC, 2009-2013
  • JamBase, Inc., 2006-2013
  • Film Arts Foundation, 2002-2004
  • MusicFans, Inc., 1997-2001

Professional Experience

David coaches founders, CEOs, and high potential emerging executives who want to develop their leadership capacity. David is an experienced CEO, mentor, advisor and coach to leaders who seek to be more at ease and impactful in their work and more deeply connected with those whom they lead. Drawing on his training and experience as a coach along with 20 years in multiple CEO roles, David provides leaders with personal development in a business leadership context.

David’s clients are often amidst major challenges and transformations: founding companies; raising capital; establishing trust with co-founders and board members; launching new products; building and leading teams; changing roles; and aligning people with strategy to scale impact. His clients appreciate his compassion and honesty as well as his strategic and relational savvy.

David is a seasoned senior leader in the consumer Internet and sustainability sectors, having led two venture-backed start-ups as well as a prominent climate change-focused NGO. He has deep experience building and leading teams, overseeing all business functions from product to sales, strategic planning and managing investor and board relations. David’s coach training equips him to work holistically with his clients – developing the cognitive emotional, relational, and other capacities appropriate to the client’s needs and goals.

His clients include those who work in healthcare, pharma/biotech, IT, fintech, finance, RE, private equity, enterprise software, early-stage tech, AI, ed-tech, SaaS/cloud, consumer Internet and mobile, social media, legal, media and entertainment, retail, renewables, energy, cleantech, utilities, NGOs, sustainability, agriculture, and government sectors.

Recent Coaching Experience

  • Founding CEO of a PE-backed, category leading SaaS and e-commerce platform company; coaching focused on scaling from $1B in revenue to several multiples greater, succession from operating to strategic and M&A role as new professional executive team is recruited and developed.
  • CEO of a VC-backed, health-tech start-up focused on driving frontline adoption of best-practices via cloud-based technology; coaching focsed on relational development and role dynamics for first-time CEO who has spent career as an ICU MD and director for major urban hospitals.
  • EVP of a major investor-owned utility; coaching focused on scaling influence, professional brand, and impact on the national energy-transition stage, developing greater work-life balance.
  • CEO of a global digital media brand; coaching focused on expanding leadership toolbox from turn-around / change management to developing more vulnerability and trust in relationships.
  • CEO of a agriculture supply chain company; coaching focused on building emoitional intelligence and delegative capacity.
  • MD and Executive Director of major oncologogy-focused public biotech firm; coaching focused on scaling range of leadership capabilities from being a technical expert to a senior general manager.
  • Senior leader of multi-billion dollar real-estate investment firm; coaching centered on building executive presence and deepening trust across multi-cultural global team.
  • President of a $1B+ buniness unit of a major PE-backed cloud-based enterprise IT company; coaching focused on relationship development amidst major business transformation.
  • President and CTO of a 4000 employee global business software company; coaching focused on expanded leadership competency in preparation for advancement to CEO role.
  • President of a 5000 employee public sector software firm; coaching focused on building trust and accountability among direct reports.
  • Founder of a financial product rating start-up in the impact investing space; coaching focused on early team/co-founder formation, network and supporter development.
  • EVP of a major national renewable energy and energy storage firm; coaching focused on slowing down to move faster, expanding leadership capacities, and time management.
  • SVP of supply chain for a VC-backed water technology firm that is bringing clean water to underserved communities across the globe; coaching focused on slowing down to speed up, creating greater executive presence to increase enrollment across functions.
  • Managing Director and global head of innovation for a major private equity firm with more than $200B AUM; coaching focused on expanded leadership skills in new global role and building influence across disparate industry and geographic investment teams.
  • CTO/CPO of venture-funded AI tech start-up; coaching focused on sharpening leadership capabilities, including building enrolment and alignment between engineering, product and sales.
  • SVP of procurement for an F100 IT company, overseeing $27B in supply chain value; coaching focused on broadening leadership capacity by developing emotional and relational awareness.
  • VP Marketing for a Fortune 200 fashion retailer; coaching focused on managing geographically dispersed, post-merger teams and growing into senior leadership role, managing up to C-suite and across to new cross-functional peer set.
  • VP Sales/Head of Region for multi-billion dollar FinTech firm; coaching focused on developing ease in role while increasing influence and impact across a highly matrixed organization and within the industry.
  • CEO of an online talent marketplace start-up focused on disintermediating the traditional legal profession; coaching centered on leadership skills and co-founder and Board relations.
  • Founder/CEO of a SaaS carbon management start-up to develop and execute fundraising strategy.
  • CEO of a tech-focused non-profit organization to develop leadership skills and capacity for fundraising and strategic planning.
  • CEO of a trade association in the energy industry to work through challenging executive team and legacy Board issues.
  • Commissioner of a major government agency to develop leadership capacity and ease in role in order to engender greater life balance and efficacy; worked through major role change and succession planning.
  • Head of product at a clean technology/energy start-up to enhance relational and collaborative capacities and leadership skills.
  • Product leader at a supply chain and logistics disruptor in the food retail sector; coaching focused on building voice and confidence in power to lead with less preparation and greater ease.
  • Chief of Staff to a major government leader to develop more skill in dealing with challenging political dynamic with colleagues.
  • CTO of a tech start-up to develop exit and succession plan; more effective stress management and communication skills
  • Product leader at F100 retailer to develop better relational, networking and group presentation skills

Career History

Executive Director, The Climate Registry (2011-2017)
David held P&L responsibility, provided strategic direction and oversaw TCR’s programs, services and staff. He acted as chief liaison with the 30 U.S. states and 13 Canadian provinces that represent TCR’s governing body and served as the primary liaison to the federal government.  David led six delegations of North American sub-national governments and businesses to UN Climate Conferences, including the Paris Accord, and has been frequently invited to speak internationally on climate issues. He led a coalition of twenty states, major utilities and the DOE to create the nation’s first energy efficiency registry and worked with the California EPA and legislature to develop the first-ever water-energy nexus registry. David oversaw TCR’s relationships with 300 corporate members across sectors including utilities, oil and gas, automotive, finance, retail and manufacturing.

Senior Consultant, Offsetters Clean Technologies (2010 – 2011)
OCT is Canada’s premier provider of high-quality solutions for organizations seeking to reduce their climate impact. David led U.S. business development efforts in the oil and electricity sectors, and in early stage development of large-scale carbon offset projects in the forestry and agricultural industries.

CEO, JamBase, Inc. (2006-2010)
David led strategy, Board and investor relations and oversaw the content, product, engineering and sales teams that built the largest database of concert information in North America. He closed content distribution deals with firms ranging from Amazon and AOL to Billboard, Ticketmaster and Sony and helped to develop JamBase into a brand loved by hundreds of thousands of diehard music fans.

Independent Management Consultant (2002-2006)
For multiple private clients, David advised leadership and developed marketing strategies and business plans for start-up companies in the media, tech and clean energy industries.  Representative clients include Good Magazine, a multi-channel media platform focused on socially and environmentally conscious issues; Participant Media, a socially-minded film production firm founded by Jeff Skoll; and CleanStar Energy, LTD , a biofuels technology start-up (JP Morgan New Business Development Project Prize Recipient). David served as a consultant COO to JamBase, Inc., advising the CEO and president on core strategic, finance and operating issues.

Musicfans, Inc., founder, COO, CEO (1997-2002)
David founded the company out of his bedroom as InkBlotMagazine as a way to use the Internet to promote deserving independent musical artists. With two interns and an army of freelance writers, he built the property into a community of more than one hundred-thousand music fans. The site evolved into Musicfans, Inc., a venture-backed network of 120+ music sites reaching millions of fans. David held P&L responsibility, overseeing finance, operations and the M&A roll-up of the network and its team of more than 100 staff and independent webmasters.