DAVE PARKER

Dave Parker serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). Selected by EO’s Global Board Directors in April 2024, as CEO, Dave leads EO’s fully remote team of more than 150 full-time professional staff from 20 countries who support the membership network’s 220+ chapters and nearly 20,000 members in chapters worldwide. He also serves on EO’s Global Board as a voting Ex-Officio Director.

Dave has contributed to dozens of other corporate and nonprofit boards since 2000, guiding organizations such as the Washington Technology Industry Association, Guidant Financial Group, Find Ventures, AudiencePoint, and Code Fellows. As a five-time technology founder himself, Dave sold three of his startups and closed two others in an entrepreneurial career spanning more than three decades. He has also collaborated with under-represented founders as a venture capitalist with Fearless Fund, where he invested in Women of Color founders across the United States.

In addition to Dave’s background as an entrepreneur and startup catalyst, he is well-versed in nonprofit organizational management. As former COO & SVP of Programs and People at since acquired UP Global (now Techstars), Dave helped organize entrepreneur events such as Startup Weekend and Startup America. As past Director with The Founder Institute in Seattle, Dave ran a 13-week training program pairing startup founders with tech mentors. 

Dave is also a published book author of Trajectory: Startup-Ideation to Product/Market Fit and a seasoned traveler, having visited more than 50 countries and done business in 20 of them. He lives in Seattle with his wife and family.