David is Chief Business and Financial Officer of Ultima Genomics and leads the firms business development and financial functions. Prior to Ultima, David was an investment banker for 20 years and was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, where he was responsible for coverage of the life sciences tools and diagnostics sectors for the healthcare investment banking team. While at J.P. Morgan, David raised billions of dollars of capital for industry and led many of the recent and successful initial public offerings that helped build the emerging life sciences tools & diagnostics ecosystem. David received a BS in Economics from Davidson College.